
Bright (double) rainbow with supernumerary bows

A bright Perseid meteor streaks over Exmoor National Park - 00:32UT, 9 August 2016

The Full Moon rising through the Belt of Venus with the Earth's blue-grey shadow lying along the horizon - 22 April 2021

A Perseid meteor dropping through the stars of Ophiuchus over the Jurassic Coast, in Dorset — 12/13 August 2021

Bright sundog showing colours of the visible spectrum - 13 August 2015

Montage showing the development of the green flash phenomenon

22-degree Sun halo with improvised occulting disk (polystyrene ball on a stick)

Sunset reflections over the Mediterranean showing atmospheric reddening of the solar disc

Bright and colourful lunar corona

Lightning fork during night-time thunderstorm

A Perseid meteor fireball soars through Cassiopeia

Sun pillar at sunset - 13 April 2015

Extensive lightning over a valley in the Pyrenees

Circumzenithal arc over Somerset, UK - 13 August 2016

Crepuscular rays at sunset

The rising Full Moon, Belt of Venus and an enormous murmuration over the Somerset Levels, with Glastonbury Tor on the horizon – 17 January 2022

Bright moondog (paraselene) with the Moon and stars

Long crepuscular rays at sunset

Iridescent cloud

22-degree lunar halo - 22 December 2015

The green flash

The Parhelic Circle intersecting with a 22-degree solar halo

A bright Quadrantid meteor streaks in front of nebulae in Orion leaving a persistant train which is then sculpted by high-altitude winds over the following minutes.

Distant thunderstorm with lightning forks

The Belt of Venus and the Earth's shadow from the top of the Quantock Hills, Somerset.

Green flash on the upper limb of the setting Sun

Kelvin-Helmholtz instability clouds

Composite image created from captures during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower over East Devon - 11/12 August 2016

Sundog - 13 November 2016

Mammatus clouds

A rare lunar fogbow captured from Somerset, UK.

The Green Flash developing as the Sun sets

A subsun (bottom right) seen from the air

Close up of bright sundog with wispy cloud structure - 13 August 2015

Bright colours within a solar corona

Lenticular clouds

Flying home at sunset - 7 April 2015

A segment of the 360-degree sunset during the 21 August 2017 total solar eclipse

Twilight colours over Somerset and north Devon – January 2022

Composite image of six Geminid meteors - 15 December 2015

Anticrepuscular rays in the east after sunset

Dramatic (possible lenticulars below centre and at left) clouds ahead of advancing thunderstorm

Thunder clouds backlit by the setting Sun with crepuscular rays

Nearing sunset

The 'Etruscan vase' sunset

Iridescent clouds - April 2016

A bright Taurid meteor streaks below Aquila along with the Milky Way - 7 November 2015

Wide view of sundogs (parhelia) either side of the afternoon Sun - 13 August 2015

Timelapse of the Moon's shadow sweeping over the Faroe Islands during the March 2015 total solar eclipse

Lightning over east Devon - 18-19 July 2017

Crepuscular rays panorama

Sunset colours, sunspots and a distorted Sun

Sunset over the Somerset Levels from Glastonbury Tor

Post-sunset colours over Exmoor National Park

The Belt of Venus sits over the Earth's shadow (blue-grey band) - 26 May 2017

Reddened double rainbow at sunset - 7 August 2017

Orange Sun due to atmospheric dust and Portuguese forest fire smoke - Somerset, UK - 16 October 2017

Electrical storm over west Somerset - 27 May 2017

Supernumerary bows within a bright rainbow

Crepuscular rays over summer clouds

Gravity wave clouds over south-west England

A 22-degree halo and partial circumscribed halo (above centre) - March 2016

Sun pillar at sunset, Dartmoor, UK.

Sunset over the Somerset Levels

Sunset over the Indian Ocean showing classic reddening of the low-altitude Sun

Iridescent cloud

Bright and colourful sundog (parhelion) - 7 October 2015

A strong display of green airglow over Exmoor National Park, UK – 8 August 2022

Close-up of bright sundog - 13 November 2016

The Belt of Venus over Earth's shadow

Cloudy sunset over Exmoor, with faint crepuscular rays - 10 July 2020

Crepuscular rays over a large cloud formation

Electrical storm with cloud-to-cloud lightning fork - 27 May 2017

Cloud iridescence

Moon pillar

Red atmospheric airglow with embedded gravity waves at bottom right (animated to show motion) - December 2019

Green flash appearing

Bright Geminid meteor - 15 December 2015

Lunar corona - 27 April 2015

Pileus cloud formation

Mammatus clouds

Lightning over Bristol, UK

Bright moondog showing spectral colours

Gravity waves within a high-altitude cloud layer

A Perseid meteor streaks across a moonlit sky past the band of the Milky Way - 12 August 2017

Bright circumscribed halo - April 2016

Sunset colours merging into the Belt of Venus and the Earth's shadow

Reflections of the setting Sun over the Mediterranean Sea

Bright afternoon sundog showing colours of visible spectrum - 13 August 2015

Upper Tangent arc - 14 July 2016

Bright rainbow with supernumeraries

Crepuscular rays after sunset

Sunset colours

22-degree lunar halo


Crepuscular rays

The Sun's distorted disc at sunset

Perseid meteor fireball through dewed over lens

Lunar corona - 14 December 2016

High clouds illuminated from below by the setting Sun

Close-up of rainbow colours

Sunrise over the Mediterranean

A bright Perseid meteor in Aquarius - ~01:10UT, 12 August 2016

A 22-degree solar halo

Animation showing the drifting persistent 'trains' left by two meteors (a bright Perseid followed by another, smaller, sporadic) - 9 August 2016

Crepuscular rays at sunset


Distorted Sun at sunset

Afternoon crepusclar rays

Sunset sundog over misty hills

The 'Etruscan vase' sunset

Iridescent pileus cloud

Circumzenithal arc


Fiery sunset clouds with the Moon - winter 2015

Distant mammatus clouds

View from a plane illustrating changing atmospheric transparency with altitude

Late afternoon crepuscular rays

Anticrepuscular rays at sunset over the Belt of Venus & Earth's shadow

Deep summer twilight from the southern UK (taken just before midnight local time) - 22 June 2015

Green flash developing on the setting Sun

Faint Sun pillar at sunset

Sunspots at sunset

Crepuscular rays

Close-up view of gravity wave structures within a cloud layer

Sunset clouds

Venus with Kelvin-Helmholtz instability clouds - 20 December 2016

Scattered mammatus clouds

Rain showers silhouetted against sunset colours

Distant iridescent clouds at sunset

Sunset over water with reddened solar disc

Crepuscular rays from a contrail

Highly reddened sun pillar at sunset

Geminid meteor through the constellation of Leo

Sunset cloud structures

The 'Etruscan vase' sunset

Moon pillar

Various ice halos including part of the rare supralateral arc - 14 July 2016

Flame-like crepuscular rays at sunset - 2 November 2016

Crepuscular rays emanating from cloud

The Moon rising through the Earth's shadow with the Belt of Venus above

Five Geminid meteors streak through Ursa Major (composite)

Bright sundog


Sunset over the Bristol Channel

Pileus cloud

The Moon, the Earth's shadow and the Belt of Venus

Geminid meteor - December 2020

Sunset colours with long crepuscular ray and red sun pillar

Sunset crepuscular rays

Sun pillar at sunset

Distant thunderstorm with lightning forks

Geminid meteor shower composite 2014 with sporadics

Electrical storm with cloud-to-cloud lightning fork - 27 May 2017































































































































































