Blazing skies, glowing seas as Australia aurora shines
Digital Reporter
Tuesday, October 6, 2015, 8:16 AM - If you live in Canada, there's a decent chance you'd feasted your eyes on the aurora borealis.
And even if you haven't yet seen the dazzling lightshow -- made up of charged particles from the sun hitting our atmosphere -- does occasionally venture south of 60, so you're bound to see it eventually.
But as absorbed as we are by the aurora, we don't always remember it has a southern twin: The aurora australis, which can sometimes be viewable from the world's southern-most nations.
So Australia occasionally gets a glimpse as well, as it did over the weekend, but photographer Paul Fleming got more than a cosmic lightshow when he ventured to the shores of Tasmania, Australia's southern island state.
What a night!I ventured out in the hope of catching the recent bloom of #bioluminescence that is glowing around some...
Posted by Photography by Paul D Fleming on Sunday, October 4, 2015
Fleming happened to be there on a night when the beach was thronged with bioluminescent organisms, giving off that sharp blue light. He set up his camera, set it to a long exposure, and the result is a work of art.
"To top it off you can also see the Milky Way and two meteors - I was seriously excited, and may have done a little happy dance on the beach tonight!" Fleming wrote on his Facebook page (He's no slouch with the DSLR. Check out more of his work on his website, not to mention his Instagram and Twitter feeds).
Fleming wasn't the only one armed with a camera that night. Rob Warren captured a time lapse of the aurora australis, sans the bioluminescence:
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