The following images are copyright Paul Money (unless otherwise credited) and permission is granted to download them and print for your own personal use to show family and friends. All views and comments made here are my own personal observations. It should be noted that as the aircraft is continually moving (of which I'm glad!) the images are long exposures of several seconds, with the Minolta and Canon cameras generally 15 seconds. Thus some star trailing occurs on the original raw images. Where it is possible I have done my best to correct the trailing with image processing , always with the aim of recreating how it really looked and compensating for any trailing of the stars. I hope you enjoy the images. Some of the best images of the most recent flights are now available to purchase as gifts from the Astrospace online shop.

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December 2010
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NOTE that due to severe weather conditions and the Spanish Air Traffic Controllers strike the Exeter Dec 5th flight had to be canceled and similarly the Bristol Dec 7th flight was also affected by the severe freezing conditions and was canceled.
They have been rescheduled for Feb 4th 2011 (Exeter) and March 3rd 2011 (Bristol).

The Manchester flight 101210 Many thanks to the passengers who allowed me to take the wing images on this flight.
An 'average' display with some structure and periods of brightening on an exceptionally dark aircraft thanks to Jet2.com, the Flight Deck and the Cabin crew. On this flight I was only able to get a couple of good pics as I spent most of the time as the Roving Astronomer.	Some structure was visible although the diaplay was not the brightest we've seen.	Note how the wing's leading edge is just reflecting some of the aurora!

November 2010
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The East Midlands flight 021110 Many thanks to the passengers who allowed me to take the wing images on this flight.
A good display with some structure and periods of brightening.	And so it begins with some structure forming	A view of the wing out of the porthole window as the display began to brighten.
A good amount of structure as the display continues.	The Great Bears tail points to the brightest patch!
The Birmingham flight 031110 Many thanks to the passengers who allowed me to take the wing images on this flight.
Another good display with structure and rays	Great view with the wing tip in dark contrast slicing through the auroral band with rays and bright patches forming. This view from the Starboard (right) side.	And it continued...
and two views from the Port (left) side during the display		The cabin was very dark with just the green floor strips gently glowing!
The Gatwick flight 041110
A faint but visible display where I only managed a couple of decent pictures but more may be found on Pete Lawrence's auroraflights web site. Despite it's faintnes there was some structure discernable at times.	Starboard side and a black wing with lots of stars and some faint structure.	A dim red and fainter green glow towards the back of the wing tip. Port side.
The Edinburgh flight #1 061110
A quite good display with some structure. A bright patch developed and rippled along the auroral band.	Some ray structure also tried to develop	The green auroral band was changing all the time.
All the Edinburgh images here form part of the same sequence  taken within a 3 minute timeframe.
Movie of the above flight by Paul Money. Note Divx software is required to view - download Divx from here Click to play or right click and choose 'save as'
The Edinburgh #2 flight 071110
A fairly diffuse display with little structure during the flight. For once there was some high level faint cirrus above us!	The tail of the great Bear pointed to the best part of the aurora which helped!	The Stars were stunning though! Click here for an annotated version pointing out Orion, Gemini, Taurus, the Hyades star cluster, Procyon and Cancer.
Jupiter was very bright (brightest in this image) and produced quite some glare on the windows but some people did manage to spot nearby Uranus as shown in the next close up image.		Annotated version of Jupiter/Uranus image at left
The Glasgow flight 081110
A good display with some structure but I kept forgetting and sitting down on the seat next to the camera which slightly moved it whilst taking the images so most were spoiled :-(  This view is of the city lights from above - light pollution!!	Bright with some structure developing along the base.	The base of the auroral band was constantly changing as the next few images show.
		A stretched view of the interior of the plane looking towards Pete Lawrence's camera and the brigt aurora in the window!
Final shot of Orion and taurus rising as we head back.

January / February / March 2010
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