Monday, March 23, 2015

St Patricks Day Aurora Australis

I've always wanted to see an Aurora, and I still do.

Ón St. Patrick's day, 17 March 2015, a fairly big CME hit and caused awesome Aurora in the Northern Hemisphere - that much I was aware of - but then I discovered that we had unusually large effects down here in the Southern Hemisphere as well!  Amazingly, there were sightings of the Aurora even in Goulburn - here's a link to a YouTube video taken early on the morning of the 18th.

I'm not sure how good the Aurora looked in Melbourne, because - of course - we had total cloud cover that night.

Typical...

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