Lots of red and green shimmering in the sky tonight.
This was a handheld shot, ISO 6400, f4, 1 sec exposure. Maybe I should drag a tripod out next time I want to shoot the aurora.
I think maybe my iPhone did a better job.
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Wow! Love that second photo – surprised that’s with an IPhone.
Have tried with my phone camera and not got anything near that good.
My phone does help to see the colours and aurorae -better than the uniaded eyes but not to capture them so vividly.
That green sure is spectacular!!!!
Thanks for sharing.
Nice!
What direction are the photos looking?
North of course.
More photos here if folks want tosee them via those who saw it in Oz :
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-13/aurora-australis-in-photos-november-2025/106003620
PS. From what I gather there’s a reasonable chance of more aurorae being visible tonight.
neato…
back in the nineties, I dropped out of college and went on a road trip up to Alaska to gut fish for a summer, and had a lot of really cool experiences during that.
Getting to observe the Aurelius borealis (sp?) was part of that. We were trying some dumb shit like swapping out drivers without stopping, instead of getting proper rest, and I was driving at night through British Colombia? (maybe Yukon?), and thought the windshield was getting blurry. Put on the windshield wipers, and it didn’t help, and then a minute or so later I realized it was the aurelius borealis, woke up my companion, pulled off to the side of the road, and just kinda sat ther in dumbstruck awe at the weird and pretty light show.
Naturally the skies were overcast here in North Sweden.
@ ^ birgerjohansson : Cloudy and raining outside here in Adelaide South Oz too.
FWIW for other Aussies & Southern hemispherers who might have clear skies there’s a comet – Comet Lemmon hopefully by name not nature – that’s visible albeit only just in our night skies too. :
Source & sky chart : https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1434211508705864&set=a.132810408845987 Dr Brad Tucker’s fb page.