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Social media lit up with photos of the stunning display. Well that was a lovely evening! I enjoyed a rather pretty display of the Aurora Australis earlier this evening from my favoured perch beside Hoopers Inlet, tweeted Otago Museum director Ian Griffin. She s back. Aurora Australis in all her beauty, another tweeted.
Auroras are caused by solar flares from the sun that hurtle through space. When this solar storm approaches the Earth, some of the energy and small particles travel down the magnetic field lines at the north and south poles into the atmosphere.
Once there, the particles interact with gases, which then results in auroras. Oxygen gives off green and red light while nitrogen glows blue and purple.
Otago Museum director Ian Griffin captured quite the light show from Hoopers Inlet.
If seeing the Southern Lights is on your bucket list, 2021 is shaping up to be a good year to tick it off, promising brighter displays than we ve seen in some time. Otago Museum director and astronomer Dr Ian Griffin captured a timelapse video of a “rather pretty display” of the Aurora Australis on Saturday night from his favourite viewpoint at isolated Hoopers Inlet on the Otago Peninsula.
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Hoopers Inlet on the souther coast of the Otago Peninsula is astronomer Ian Griffin’s favourite local spot for aurora hunting.
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