Movie night this week is Goosebumps 2 and, suffice to say, it's another weird one.

I'm often asked why I choose to live in a tiny high-arctic town.

Because some days, waiting at the airport to greet new guests, I get to take videos like this.

Partner has picked "The House" for movie night. Suffice it to say that shit got real weird, real fast.

I am a firm proponent of "the best camera is the one you have with you", but sometimes a mobile phone just doesn't feel as though it cuts the mustard.

Enjoy this truly awful quality footage of a juvenile goshawk utterly failing at eating the lizard it has managed to catch. Possibly by accident.

Good morning Bluesky, and God Jul!

SkyPro has been retrieved after yesterday's escape attempt and is now under house arrest, pending upgrades to prevent a repeat.

See if you can spot the point that the box fell off the roof and got buried in snow...

Good morning Bluesky!

SkyPro has given an early Christmas present and I fucked it up especially for you.

The whole damn day yesterday was aurora and I can only upload 60 seconds, so I sped it up even more.

May it bring you slightly more joy than pain.

I'm late I'm late I'm late!

Sorry, I've been out taking some photos on the big boy camera so SkyPro has been a bit neglected.

As amazing as it is to say, the aurora in this lapse is a bit washy, but the clear skies gave a beautiful wheel of stars also with some aurora.

I have a timelapse problem.

I do hope you'll all forgive a certain dramatic slow start to this clip.

Well, forgiveness or not, it's what was recorded, so there.

Fascinating show though, full gamut from delicate dayside into some impressively bright streaks, even with light pollution from the moon!

Well, not every day can be a banger.

At this stage in the solar cycle, while the aurora is theoretically always visible to some degree, the clouds are often the deciding factor.

Today was one of those days.

A very unusual show on SkyPro yesterday. Red Aurora seems to be quite rare, we've only seen it twice in over a year.

SkyPro also isn't usually great at soft red tones, but I think this came out pretty well!

There was an extremely brief break in the 80 straight hours of Svalbard Egg* around midday yesterday, and, wouldn't you know, Lady Aurora was dancing!

*Egg is our household term for the irritatingly persistent cloud produced by the odd microclimate around Longyearbyen.

Intellectually, I know I shouldn't be surprised that interactions between Earth's atmosphere and Solar particles are highly variable.

Emotionally, I've been up here for over a year now and every time I see the aurora, it's got new shapes and colours and it's awesome and I fall in love again.

Better late than never, I hope!

Clouds for about 17 straight hours finally gave way to clear skies. I had expected SkyPro would have missed the show, being pointed North, but I was pleasantly surprised on review.

While cloud rolled over yesterday afternoon, during the 'day' from around 0700 to 1500, the aurora was almost continuously visible otherwise. The odd bright wave but mostly far more diffuse.

Also, a very large number of satellites and/or meteors.

Well, I believe it's reasonable to say that SkyPpro2.0 is currently living up to my expectations.

Fingers crossed for many more of these over the coming weeks!