You are slightly South as far as I can tell of Kangaroo Island in South
Australia
from which the Auroras are occasionally visible, (Never been there just
looked it up).
You need a good combination of a clear night and a solar storm. It doesn't
happen often
but we can occasionally see them as far South as Southern New England in
the Northern
Hemisphere. I can't remember the exact latitude here but I know it's South
of 54.40 N. Don't
ask me why I know it's a long story.
At 06:51 PM 8/20/2001 +1200, you wrote:
>Peter Alling writes:
>
> > Jody, You shouldn't have to leave NZ
> > Aurora Australis (the Southern Lights), should be visible from
> > the Southernmost parts of New Zealand. Possibly even Christchurch.
>
> I wish. We're 43 degrees S (what's the generally accepted "cutoff" for
> aurora
>visibility?), and there's too much light pollution anyway.
>
> I travelled to Tekapo earlier this year, which is one of the clearest
> places in
>the Southern hemisphere. Didn't see any auroras (I was about a week late)
>but just seeing so many stars was an incredible experience for a city-boy
>like
>me.
>
>Cheers,
>
>
>- Dave
>
>David A. Mann, B.E. (Elec)
>http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
>
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> while children are allowed to run free on the streets?" -- Garfield
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