(Image: Astro Dog)
The Northern Lights have been captured above a North Yorkshire landmark.
Scarborough-based astrophotographers Astro Dog filmed the moment the lights, also known as the Aurora Borealis, turned the skies above Whitby Abbey green and pink on Saturday night (October 10).
Astro Dog, run by partners Nicole Carr and Simon Scott, headed to Whitby to capture the display between 9.55pm and 11.45pm on Saturday.
They created a timelapse of the Northern Lights using 1,300 separate photographs.
Nicole, who describes herself as an “aurora hunter”, said the displays happen when the sun releases streams of charged particles known as “solar wind”, which interact with the Earth’s magnetic field and different elements in its atmosphere.
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During this interaction, the charged particles meet gases in our atmosphere, energise them and cause them to emit photons of light.
Nicole has said seeing the aurora as south as North Yorkshire is a rare event with the chances growing even thinner the further south you go.
Her favourite locations to catch the displays include Scalby Mills cliffs, Scarborough; the cliffs in Burniston Nab, Scarborough; and the coastal areas around Whitby.
For more information about Astro Dog, visit astro-dog.co.uk