What is is about the Aurora that makes us so awestruck? It’s not really that magnificent a site without the aid of a good camera and a little editing… more a hazy pale green waft that could be cloud or could be fog, or could it be that we’re lucky enough to be in the presence of the dancing waves of solar activity, mixed with ions in the atmosphere and the earths magnetic field that creates the mystical Aurora. The Southern Lights!
This week we were lucky enough to have clear skies and a beautiful Aurora which danced above us here at Casey Station. A quick bolt in a Hagglunds away from the bright lights of station and we were blessed with the best show we’ve seen yet. (Usually we get a bright green Aurora off in the distance on the horizon; but on Thursday night it danced directly above us, mixing it up with the Milky Way and a few satellites and shooting stars.)
What a show.
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