A Scottish ‘aurora hunter’ captured amazing new pictures of the Northern Lights – thanks to an early hours loo trip.

Charlie Davidson, from Peterhead, has been photographing the beautiful natural phenomenon for two years.

But within five hours of arriving in Finland, the 45-year-old was looking at one of the most amazing displays of the lights in his career.

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Oil industry worker Charlie has already been to Iceland and recently travelled to Utsjoki, in the far north of Finland.

He arrived around 10pm but thick cloud developed within an hour and he went to bed.

He said: “I woke up around 3am and got up to go to the toilet, I took a quick look out the window and the aurora was there again so I got dressed and went out with my camera.”