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<DIV>Ian Barnes-Keoghan recommended that I forward this email to you.</DIV>
<DIV>I can add more to it now - the lights actually continued until at least
11.30pm, because I looked out immediately before going to bed.</DIV>
<DIV>There was a series of "arcs" above the horizon - not just one - and from
below and from within them surged "beams" of white/green light - almost like
searchlight-effects. The word "coruscating", which I have never before
understood properly, would seem to be the best description of the effects.
"Stunning" just doesn't really cut it!</DIV>
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<DIV>I would appreciate being put on any email listing for warnings that this
sort of phenomenon is possibly due.</DIV>
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<DIV>Cheers</DIV>
<DIV>Lynda Manwaring<BR><A
href="mailto:lynda@fakedomain.ips
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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From: anonymous <anonymous@fakedomain.ips>
title=lynda@fakedomain.ips
href="mailto:lynda@fakedomain.ips
Manwaring</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=webclim@fakedomain.ips
href="mailto:webclim@fakedomain.ips
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:26 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Southern Lights</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Attention: Ian Barnes-Keoghan:</DIV>
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<DIV>I assume I am correct in saying that the SPECTACULAR light show we
watched tonight from our back garden was the Aurora Australis? The lights
shimmered across the sky and formed curves on and above the horizon for over an
hour from about 9.40pm.</DIV>
<DIV>The lights shimmered literally right across the sky, from west to east and
back again, forming a series of arcs after seeming to start from a central
point immediately overhead, sending rays out to all parts of the sky.</DIV>
<DIV>Because we have no large population centres nearby, the effects were easily
visible - glowing silver and green.</DIV>
<DIV>My husband has a big camera and has taken some photos tonight on long
exposure - I have persuaded him to enter them in the 2005 Photo
Competition.</DIV>
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<DIV>I was very amazed at the sudden drop in temperature at the same time as the
Aurora - it went from quite mild to almost frosty within a matter of half an
hour.</DIV>
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<DIV>I can only remember seeing this phenomenon once before, as a child in
Sydney - out in the (then thinly populated) south-west suburbs. I do not
remember the Aurora as being anything like so spectacular as tonight's effort.
With a bit of luck, I may see it again now that we live down here in the
40's!</DIV>
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