Aurora Australis
Taken by Ian Griffin on May 16, 2026 @
Middlemarch, Otago, South Island New Zealand
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These frames capture a remarkably rapid auroral intensification this evening, likely associated with the expansion phase of a magnetospheric substorm. Over just a few minutes, a faint diffuse red glow evolved into bright structured curtains and rays as energetic particles were suddenly injected into the upper atmosphere. From a visual perspective this was a lovely thing to see, with dancing beams in the southern sky!
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