Red Aurora Australis

After chasing it for more than two years I was finally rewarded with two displays of Aurora Australis (Southern lights) within a week visible from Mornington peninsula, not far from Melbourne. The nights were warm an clear and the Moon was not in the sky either - I could not have asked for better conditions.

The red color of this aurora is caused by the charged particles from the Sun exciting oxygen atoms high in the Earth's atmosphere. Hopefully there will be more to come as Sun's activity increases in 2012-13.

Being able to photograph it all night I came up with a nice video. The brighter Aurora happened on January 22nd and the smaller one, featured in the middle section, was from January 16th, followed by a rather bright Moonrise.

Images and blog:
http://www.terrastro.com/blog/red-aurora/

Time lapse motion control performed with Dynamic Perception Stage Zero ( http://www.dynamicperception.com )

Music: Coral Reef by Psychadelik Pedestrian
http://www.toucanmusic.co.uk/releases/release.php?q=tou274

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• aurora

[johnny44speedy]

man pls tell me is this real or is fake if its fake and you cant tell in public pls send me message if its true reply in front of all ..the reason im asking is cos i wanna go there like for vaca.'s but im not sure so pls reply a.s.a.p. and tell me what time of the year it was when you went there and filmed this

[terrastro]

It is real and if you read the description then you will find out the exact dates when it was filmed. Bear in mind though that Aurorae are very difficult to predict and there is no guarantee of seeing one there in January or any other month.

[mommy101684]

Are those boats goin by?

[terrastro]

yes

[familyguyfreak796]

Paul McCartney picked a bad time to stop smoking pot.

[7sblack]

Amazing & awe inspiring, thank you for this video.

[TritiaKam]

Breathtakingly beautiful & inspirational, thank you for capturing the beauty of Gaia & sharing it with the world!!! Such an amazing video!! Much respect!! Much love, light, gratitude & blessings!!

[TheHoralkaEU]

Beautiful, did you made also some wallpapers from this?

[nikiwonoto]

my god.....watching this video makes me both in awe, feeling soo damn small, and feeling soo much explosion inside my heart, full of childlike wonders,

yet at the same time, makes me realize and ask myself: "what the f**k am I doing HERE in this 9-to-5 little office work 'box' EVERY single day??" "why can't I just GET OUT there to explore this vast mysterious world, planet, and universe??..."

~regards from Indonesia~

[saad rezrazi]

naiccccccc



[devilpizza123]

I live on the Mornington peninsula and I never see the sky that clearly :( Was this down at Flinders or Portsea?

[NathanaelBunge]

So What??

[NathanaelBunge]

Hehe

[dkdkdkdkdkdkdkkdkdkk]

Stop it Now nathan

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