Have you ever seen the Aurora Australis ?

No. But hope it is on Youtube.

It's beautiful though. I had only every heard of the aurora borealis.

Yes, just once, back in 1986. I was a sixth grader at the time and staying with my grandmother here in New South Wales. My uncle used to drop in every evening to see that she was alright and settled for the night. When he left, we walked out the back door to see him off and talked with him for a minute on the back steps.

There was nothing but bushland behind her house and we noticed the sky on the horizon was flashing weirdly. My uncle said it looked like there might be a storm coming and to make sure the windows were shut before we went to bed and so on. As we looked, we realised the sky south was rather clear and ablaze with colour. It wasn't lightning tearing through distant clouds like we thought. Nanna said it was the Aurora Borealis. It later turned out she was half-right. It was the aurora alright, but it was Aurora Australis - the Southern Lights. She passed away in 2006 after a battle with dementia. Watching the distant colours shimmering on the horizon with her and my uncle is one of my favourite memories of her.

What a great story!! How lucky you are for that memory!!

Thanks for sharing. Bet ur Nanna still watches it with u

My mom had a necklace once.....pretty prisms......we stole it and hung it in a tree.....we all got a spankin'......who knew??

I might add, we only did it cuz it was summer and we were BOR ed....we just didn't have E- nough to do....AL-as, alack we got in trouble....that IS the way it went......

I've never had the privilege of seeing any aurora. Australis, or otherwise.

The southern cross neither, but I've seen the northern lights often.

I would like to see the Southern Lights sometime but I fear I will never travel to the southern hemisphere. I'd love to see Chile and from what I read that is one of the best places to see them.

I would love to see it someday.

I remember something about it but don't remember if I was watching it or just planned to and then forgot it. It was probably one of those nights when I was drinking a little too much and don't remember crap-ola.

I would LOVE to though!! It would be such an exiting and memorable experience

No,but I have saw the Alaska Aurora

well theres 2 auroras and i've seen one of them but i don't know the name of the one i've seen

well, what hemisphere were in ? that would usually determine which kind of lights you saw .

northern

I am jealous of you!

I wish

Most certainly have..although I didn't exactly realise at the time what it was I was seeing. The desert at night is full of wierd and wonderful sights and sounds.

where in the Outback were you when you saw therm ?
Mike G.

I was in a tiny little town called Borraloola (one shop and a Police station) in the Northern Territory...just on the fringes of Arnhem Land.
It was quite spooky...in the outback at night the wind blows across the tops of the broken trees and makes a sound much like a Didgeridoo...with that and the lights in the sky to the south very little sleep was the norm.

Aurora Australis - YouTube

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Video of the Aurora Australis taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the International Space Station. This ...



No but I really would like to. sorry the stupid thing didn't come out right ,never does when I do it. sorry

...here ya go :)

Thank you very much. that was Beautiful

You're welcome Angell :)

I have never been in the Southern Hemisphere. Sadly.

Not that one but you can see faint trails from N.Ireland. I was in the country once at a friends house and happened to look up, it was like very faint wide tubes miles high above me, a sight and a half.

Yes, that's certainly far enough N for the Aurora Borealis.
What County were in, from which you saw them?

most beautiful ...........

heard of it but don't know what it is. I think it's a constellation but not sure

You're confusing Pisces australis & Triagulium australis, those are constellations. What the questioner is referring to is the Southerns Lights, the counterpart to the northern (borealis).

nope, and even if I did, being in Idaho we would just assume that it was Borealis

a likely hypothesis (lol)

Living in the northern hemisphere makes it hard, but I'm north enough for the Borealis kind to be very common... ;o)

Never went south enough to even have a chance to see an Australis one...

I am even Australian and I haven't (yes it is visible from some parts of Australia), my best bet is actually to go to New Zealand, Argentina or ofcourse Antartica.
All places I plan to go in the not so distant future.

Tasmania might work too .

Oh yeah, on the top of Mount Wellington in winter would probably work.