Duck! wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2024 2:06 pm
I went down to Balnarring Beach on the Westernport side of Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne - south-facing beach with a clear view out to the ocean, with minimal light pollution. However I went pretty late, and I think missed the best of it. Just a faint greenish almost pre-dawn glow to the south, morphing to a barely-perceptible deep purple higher up.
We left at I think 10.40pm; the spot where we were is usually, in the absence of something quite — ahh — out of this world, entirely deserted of anything and anybody, being right next to a sewerage treatment plant. Most people got something between the rents of drifting cloud.
For the hardiest, most devoted ruffits out there, another chance tonight, before a cloud mass gatecrashes the party — that will be the somewhat dull weather that starts the week tomorrow...
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SUBJ: ASWFC AURORA ALERT HIGH LATITUDES
ISSUED AT 0123 UT ON 12 May 2024
FROM THE AUSTRALIAN SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING CENTRE
GEOMAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS. AURORA MAY BE OBSERVED
DURING LOCAL NIGHT TIME HOURS IN GOOD OBSERVING CONDITIONS
AT HIGH LATITUDES.
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