Aurora Australis

While the North Island deals with the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle, a different kind of "incredibly powerful" storm has taken hold of the South.

"This solar storm has been incredibly powerful and has created this wonderful light across the sky throughout the southern part of New Zealand. It is expected to peak in 2025. "This hopefully will continue for a few nights. The skies were just so beautiful across the South Island. "It was absolutely stunning ... So, I think hundreds of people were out last night photographing it and it really was one of the best displays I've seen in the 10 years I've lived in the country."

Aurora Australis, more commonly known as the Southern Lights, is a rare natural light display that can only be witnessed from remote locations.

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Professor Ekant Veer captured a time lapse of the phenomenon over Canterbury's Birdlings Flat, while Rowan Holt photographed last night's Aurora from ...

"By the time he got there it had definitely faded a bit... "It was a pretty special moment." "Everyone was just amazed, it was just a very beautiful, beautiful moment."

PHOTOS: The Aurora lights put on a colourful display on Monday night. Here's how the photographers saw it.

* Overnight Monday was the perfect time to capture the Aurora above the Mackenzie, he said. “I have captured it once, well I was trying to do it, but I missed a few times, but now I think I am on track.” “It was just incredible seeing the sky move round so much, it was incredibly fast.” “I was speechless when I first saw it, the whole sky to above my head was just pulsing.” “The best of the action seemed to be about 10 to 11pm, but I went out at midnight thinking it wasn’t going to be that flash.”

Marine City photographer Jacob Piper drove up to Port Austin on Sunday night to capture stunning images of the Northern Lights, which were lighting up the ...

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Monday night in Western Australia was a dazzling sky show provided by the Aurora Australis, stretching as far north as Lancelin.

[Australia](https://nnn.ng/tag/australia/) was a dazzling sky show provided by the Aurora Australis, stretching as far north as Lancelin. [](https://nnn.ng/hausa/#=bbc hausa kwankwaso) [](https://nnn.ng/i/#=website link shortner) One photographer in Lancelin wrote that it was an incredibly rare experience 125km away from Perth, while another captured their first ever Aurora Australis near Mount Dale.

Both the Aurora Australis and Aurora Borealis have captivated people's minds for millions of years, from the Northern American belief that the lights were ...

Lucky photographers were able to get a glimpse of the tail end of the lights just above the horizon, and the As a matter of fact, to see the lights in the city, the scale needs to hit an 8kp or higher, as the phenomenon dims the further you get from the source. The Aurora Australis (or Southern Lights) happens when the sun releases massive bursts of solar wind and magnetic fields into space.

'We thought last Tuesday's auroral display was excellent. Well, the sun showed us.'

This one caused auroras for over 16 hours in the northern and southern skies.” Scott McDonald said he was “still in shock” at what he witnessed in Lancelin, about 125kms north of Perth. “We thought last Tuesday’s auroral display was excellent. “This was shot at Mount Dale - and yes, I completely am overwhelmed at the significance of the name - just an hour east of my house. Photographer Vicki-Louise White said she did not have “this on the 2023 bingo card but here we are” after scoring a stunning picture east of Armadale. “The eruption triggered a long-duration M-class (medium intensity) solar flare, which passed us in 10 minutes,” he said.

Aurora Australis, more commonly known as the Southern Lights, is a rare natural light display that can only be witnessed from remote locations.

This is how you can continue to access our trusted content: The Advocate journalist covering West and North-West Tasmania. Do you have a story?

This photo taken on Feb. 27, 2023 shows the Aurora Australis, also known as the Southern Lights, seen from Fox Glacier on the west coast of the South Island ...

(Photo by Yang Liu/Xinhua)

Photographers' images flooded social media yesterday. Georgia Wallis, of Queenstown, said she took a friend, who had never seen the southern lights, to the ...

"And the fact of the matter is it’s still raging." "I saw it here and when I woke up in the morning, she was off to see the one on the other side of the world." "And we’ve had two of those ejections in the last two days." However, when there were "big coronal mass ejections" like those in the last couple of days, people started to see auroras much further north in the southern hemisphere. "It was just so bright, you could see the beams in the sky — it was just amazing. Miss Wallis said she was worried to start the night because "there were a few clouds".

Aurora chasers across the South were treated to clear skies as bright beams of light visible to the naked eyed streaked through a starry backdrop to start ...

“And the fact of the matter is it’s still raging.” “I saw it here and when I woke up in the morning, she was off to see the one on the other side of the world.” “And we’ve had two of those ejections in the last two days.” However, when there were “big coronal mass ejections” like those in the last couple of days, people started to see auroras much further north in the southern hemisphere. “It was just so bright, you could see the beams in the sky — it was just amazing. Wallis said she was worried to start the night because “there were a few clouds”.

Photographers and stargazers spot auroras further north than usual. Why is this happening and how much longer will it last?

Even within that solar maximum, there is a point in time where it reaches its absolute maximum," she said. "Go somewhere high. "If you see a peak in the number of sunspots or solar flares, it would be a great time to schedule in some night viewing," she said. "By the end of 2025 that maximum, the peak, we'll be on the other side of that and the solar activity will start to decrease." "The next 11 years is the solar maximum where we're seeing a lot of activity, there are a lot of solar flares, and a lot of really high energy wind coming from the Sun," she said. "That's why we typically see auroras happening at the very top and bottom of the Earth," Ms Noon said.