Southern-Aurora.jpg

This is a 5 and a half minute exposure at ISO 400 so you can plainly see the movement in the stars.  I haven't seen this for five or six years now.  And then I'd have to go back another 5 or 6 to the first time I saw the aurora.  The first time was really good with colors being visible and tall 'curtains' forming and melting away.  Of course, no fancy digital cameras back then and I wouldn't have known how to capture them with my film camera.  To the eye, this was just a low white 'fog', you'd struggle to see this in any sort of town.  Keep an eye out over the next few nights as there's a large-ish sunspot pointing roughly towards the earth which I believe is what's causing the aurora.