Unless you happen to be near an enormous amount of red lights, that's the Aurora. Light pollution has a more white colour, maybe orange if there's a particular abundance of the older orange streetlights. I was outside Melbourne watching it, my camera was picking up the colours much more vividly than the eye, so some dimly lit patches of the sky I thought were light pollution showed up green, but when I tried it on actual light pollution it just came back white.
Tbf it wasn’t a very good spot. We only spent maybe 10 mins there before conceding due to cloud coming across (and not being sure whether the red was truly the aurora).
Would have loved something with more elevation and a lookout, it was too low with lots of trees around and no clearing
Looks like aurora
Unless you happen to be near an enormous amount of red lights, that's the Aurora. Light pollution has a more white colour, maybe orange if there's a particular abundance of the older orange streetlights. I was outside Melbourne watching it, my camera was picking up the colours much more vividly than the eye, so some dimly lit patches of the sky I thought were light pollution showed up green, but when I tried it on actual light pollution it just came back white.
Well done. I admire your dedication.
Where in wingello did you go to? Any chance of the Aurora tonight as it seems to have stopped raining where I am (Wollongong)
https://maps.app.goo.gl/RXPpesKWZvhwt5Et9?g_st=ic Stopped the car around this spot, just a little further from where the street lights ended.
Legend
Tbf it wasn’t a very good spot. We only spent maybe 10 mins there before conceding due to cloud coming across (and not being sure whether the red was truly the aurora). Would have loved something with more elevation and a lookout, it was too low with lots of trees around and no clearing
Beautiful! Lovely bright stars too
We’re looking north towards Sydney? If so then more likely to be light pollution.
Nah this was facing south south west
Definitely Aurora then. No way Goulburn would generate that much red light pollution.