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Otago Heavens put on own new year light show
« on: January 02, 2016, 09:34:04 AM »
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Southern stargazers saw in the new year with a spectacle far more impressive than any fireworks display as the Aurora Australis lit up the Otago sky.

Dr Ian Griffin, who, as well as being the director of Otago Museum, is a professional astronomer, captured the aurora in a series of photographs taken from Hoopers Inlet on the Otago Peninsula.

full story
http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11568404

and a bit more from elsewhere
New Year's Aurora Photo Blog - Astronomy Weather Blog Weather Blog
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