Topic: Aurora Australis visible from Perth AU 15th October 2024

[Shady_Acres]

Hi All,

Here in Perth Western Australia, we were gifted with an extremely rare Aurora Australis event last Saturday morning. It is something not usually seen this far north of the south pole.

I managed to catch a couple of snaps using my iPhone during a windy (and bushfire smokey) early am. Photos are a little bit shaky but thought I'd post them up for interest's sake.

Enjoy!


Shady

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[BeaumarisWX]

Very nice Shady.
I lived in the Pilbara for 22 odd years and although not that un-usual to see her as far north as Perth, it does not happen that often matey, well done.
I have lived now in Tasmania since 2006 and run a weather site, which auto captures the Night Sky East and South from our location on the North East Coast Tasmania.
Link here (with ref to the recent events, if you wish to have a look) : https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=185124#p185124

Kindest Regards,
Tony

[Shady_Acres]

Very nice Shady.
I lived in the Pilbara for 22 odd years and although not that un-usual to see her as far north as Perth, it does not happen that often matey, well done.
I have lived now in Tasmania since 2006 and run a weather site, which auto captures the Night Sky East and South from our location on the North East Coast Tasmania.
Link here (with ref to the recent events, if you wish to have a look) : https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=185124#p185124

Kindest Regards,
Tony

Thanks Mate for the kind words! I've also spent a fair bit of time in the Pilbara/Kimberly and we holidayed in Tassie during 2006. A stunning part of the world!

Your videos look amazing! We certainly couldn't see that much of the green colours where I am. (Truth be told I was getting sick with flu and we were stupidly jet-lagged after returning home from the UK on the direct London-Perth flight when the good wife alerted me at 2am that the aurora had kicked off... I stumbled outside in a brisk easterly wind and prescribed burn-off smoke in my pyjamas to get the shots. AirLink AQI had been up to over 1500 earlier so it probably wasn't the wisest decision! )

(Strangely enough, I also signed up to the Cumulus Forum you linked just this morning as I'm looking into installing the software and running on macOS so I guess I'll see you over there too... if or whenever the verification email decides to finally show up (!)

All the best,


Shady

[ocala]

It was visible here in the states too. All the way down to Florida, although I didn't see it but I saw pics of it.

[davidmc36]

Interesting it was mentioned to be more rare to see the greens, mostly reds. Here in Canada a weather guy said the opposite.

[jaltman]

Very nice pictures.  Although i did not see them from my location in the forest (no clear northly view) it was a wonderful display.  The K index was at 8 and hit 9 briefly.  Watch for the K index on a geomagnetic storm at the Space Weather Prediction Center.  There was also a good event last May. 

Regards,

Jim