Aurora Report 18-19 August 2003

[anonymous]

Received text message of IPS Aurora Alert in Hobart on Monday 18 August
2003 at about 1700 hours Australian Eastern Standard Time. Observed aurora
intermittently from Blackmans Bay 20 km south of Hobart between 2000 hours
AEST on 18 August and 0200 hours AEST on 19 August. Clear sky and moon in
last quarter. 8pm - observed "searchlights" rising from horizon up to 50
degrees elevation.  Midnight - observed green arc extending across southern
sky. 2am - observed waves of white light extending across the southern sky
about 60 degrees and rolling from the horizon up to 40 degrees elevation
with a period of about 1 second (like waves rolling onto a beach).
Spectacular.

Dallas and Beth Stott
Blackmans Bay
Tasmania Australia