#Australia Red Aurora and the #MilkyWay #Galaxy over Southern Coast of Australia #Tasmania

Alexandre Gouttefangeas

Yesterday 7:36 PM  -  Public

Simply beautiful!

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Red Aurora and the +Milky Way Galaxy over Southern Coast of Australia

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

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Joe McNally

Yesterday 5:03 PM  -  Public

on the gold coast of Australia--beautiful sunrise, moving on to Tasmania today. just an amazing trip so far. meeting lots of down under shooters, and learning a lot. they are a terrific group of folks.

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Adam LeeYesterday 10:22 PM

Gold Coast to Tassie. The weather will be VERY different down there!

Christine Pincince8:40 AM

So wish I were there

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Yesterday 4:04 PM  -  Public

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