What a night!

Unbeliveable show of auroras happened on St. Patric's Day 17. - 18.3. I was absolutely blow away by the bright corona dancing overhead for 8 hours! I let the auroras speak for themselves through these images, enjoy!

Corona and rocks

Northern horizon

Believe it or not this is a view to the southern sky! :O

Corona

Purple auroras

Solar eclipse

Miracles apparently happen, since weather forecast was awfully cloudy just couple days ago. We still had clear skies for the whole eclipse but clouds rolled in just 15 minutes past the eclipse. What a timing!
This was my first time seeing one live, and it was truly magnificent sight to withness. You could see lunar mountain silhouettes along with the sunspot AR 2303.

Unfortunately seeing wasnt good enough to take closeups of the lunar mountains, but atleast I saw them briefly with my telescope. These are stacks of 50 images to compensate turbulence in atmosphere. Cant wait to see solar eclipse again someday!

Partial solar eclipse 20.3.2015, you can see the sunspot AR2303 on the left.

This is as close as we got to totality from Kuopio, Finland. Only place in the world to see 100% totality is Svalbard and Faroe Islands.

Sun, sunglasses and the shadow of the moon.