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Gorgeous time lapse of Australia's "Southern Lights"
It's been a lifelong dream of mine to see the Northern Lights, that glorious display of eerie green "smoke" that appears to float above the nighttime sky of some of the furthest northern reaches of our globe. But now I have another sight to add to that list: the Southern Lights. Also know as "Aurora Australis", it's the southern hemisphere equivalent of the auroras that occur up north, captured in stunning time-lapse fashion near Melbourne, Australia by photographer Alex Cherney. Give the video above a click and watch as the Milky Way gracefully dances across the southern sky, punctuated by the mesmerizing warm pulses of pink, yellow and orange.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mzsoar Feb 10th 2012 12:55PM
Nice video. Especially enjoyed the fleeting meteorites and the Magellanic clouds on what must have been an extraordinarily clear night.
Al Schrader Feb 11th 2012 3:51PM
All I can say is thank you.
Alpha Feb 10th 2012 3:43PM
I loved it. It was experience I not only felt, but it felt me. I read myself into the experience, am proud of Alex and grateful he saw & captured IT.
PEGGIJEAN Feb 10th 2012 6:08PM
GORGEOUS! I SAW THE NORTHERN LIGHTS HERE IN NY AS A YOUNG GIRL. COULDN'T BELIEVE IT!!
sylvia Feb 10th 2012 10:48PM
Beautiful but can anyoneone else make out the figure of an angel at 30 seconds?
Betty Feb 11th 2012 12:42PM
YES... I see that... I could see it at 28 but at 30 it's very plain Sort of looks like a girl... long dress.... no wings,
Curt Feb 10th 2012 8:55PM
I've got to think that the streaks were jet planes, not meteorites as the progression of the Milky Way indicates a time lapse involved.
paistesmasher Feb 10th 2012 9:16PM
Is that Elvis i see, Maybe it's just me.
an15dy Feb 10th 2012 11:20PM
actually the milky way isn't dancing at all but between the guy moving the camera and the earth's rotation it appears to move. which is something you really want to see 12/21/2012, the Mayan date. what will happen on that date is: if you are watching the milky way, you'll see what they call the "procession of the equinox an event where the dark rift of the milky way lines up with this rising sun" it's an event that only happens every 26,000 years, something that the Aborigines in Australia might have seen a time or three in the past 100 thousand years. or perhaps you can only see it in MesoAmerica. At any rate it's time of renewal for the Mayan's that stems from the belief that the sun was born from milky way, or the "great mother". or rather the "great mother" the milky way gave birth to the sun.. through an area in the milky way which they call the "dark rift" in other words when someone back when was looking at the milky way they thought the rift in the milky way looked like a vagina, and being the milky way had a vagina they called it the "great mother" so it only stands to reason that our sun was born through a great vagina. A very great vagina, a terrific vagina, I've had this conversation with my wife.
Al Schrader Feb 11th 2012 3:57PM
Yeah, jets or small planes. Meteors move too fast for time-lapses.
What's incredibly valuable about this is you are looking at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. If you look closely you will notice that it is shrouded in dust and what is hidden by the dust is a black hole. This was first detected by the Xrays it produces. You can also see another galaxy not too far from the center of ours.
There is a lot of stuff out there, a lot. We can't get to any of it, but I'm working on it and I've made a lot of breakthroughs....Alfie-