RE: Great Southern Sky
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Those colors are just nuts. I saw the Northern Lights several years ago in Canada, but it was just a gentle green, nothing this vivid!
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Those colors are just nuts. I saw the Northern Lights several years ago in Canada, but it was just a gentle green, nothing this vivid!
Did you see the southern lights in your time in NZ?
Unless you are in a large solar storm (G6 or up) and close to the poles they never look as good as they do in the pictures. This is because they are faint and your cones which see in colour need more light. So you predominately see them with your rods which provide B&W vision. So smaller events often look B&W or just B&W mixed with a dirty green.
Oh interesting! I didn't know that, definitely makes sense why it appears that way. Thankfully we have cameras that can see better than us!
We didn't see any southern lights in NZ unfortunately, the conditions weren't good for them when we were in the south and I didn't plan very well the time of year that we ended up being in the southern lights hot spots. Next time hopefully!
Yep. You have to catch them somewehre when there are raging.
I'll put that on the bucket list!
I think its shorter to list the places I don't want to go ;-)
Haha yeah, totally agreed with you there!