AURORA AUSTRALIS
DISPLAY IN CHRISTCHURCH Several persons who Mere about the Christchurch streets in the early hours of last Monday morning reported having seen a fine display of the Aurora Australis. The observers were enthusiastic about the beauty of the display, which, they say, lighted up a great sector of the southern sky, and were emphatic that wlnt they had seen was the aurora.
The display was first seen by one observer at 12..'50 a.m. Others watched the great flickering light for periods between that time and 1 o'clock, and it was also observed between 2.30 and 3 a.m.
One of the men who reported the display described its effect as much like that of a searchlight showing through clouds. Broad flickering sheets of light would flare out, lighting the sky almost to the zenith, and then fade away, only to flicker up with renewed brightness.
Each successive display, it was stated, lasted for about a minute, at intervals of from 10 to 20 seconds. To tho south was a great bank of dark clouds, very low in the sky, and these stood out in strong relief against the bluish-white light of the aurora. Light, misty clouds, higher up, were lighted up.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21727, 16 February 1934, Page 12
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