LIDAR is on and visible for the first time this season! This is not the first time that it has been on but it is the first time that you could actually see the eighty to ninety kilometre beam of green laser light travelling straight up into the ionosphere! Bloody fantastic and amazing to see as it really does not go on that much as there is often too much cloud and weather interference to see it or even to bother turning it on!
While I was taking the happy snaps the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights started to shine which was a rather spectacular and radiated wave of green cloud across the sky. It was all a bit much really having a near full moon, the laser and the aurora going at the same time. They seemed to originate from the north and headed towards the west in a random nature that is hard to describe. How lucky was I to be out there taking photo and it just jumped into a shot!
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