A waltz across the night sky in a swirl of magenta, amethyst and ruby, the aurora australis made its return to southern skies on Monday August 12. With alerts going out to eager observers via the Bureau of Meteorology’s Space Weather Alert System, Facebook notifications and various other platforms, viewers from Victoria to New Zealand’s Southern Island were able to pause for beauty, while capturing the aurora’s magnificence on camera.
Using an iPhone 15 pro max, local Belinda Briggs and her son Narran Boon captured the above images of the aurora around Pine Lodge and Shepparton East on Monday night. Setting the camera to night mode with a ten second exposure, the photographers kept steady hands to snap the night sky in all its spectacular glory.
