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A visually ravishing, scientifically fascinating celebration of the Aurora Australis, or Southern Lights, as viewed from one the world's great vantage points, the south of New Zealand. The Northern Lights, or Aurora Borealis, are famous, but the equally beautiful southern version is less well known and celebrated. Scientist, amateur astronomer and excellent photographer Ian Griffin aims to inspire readers with great pictures, great science and really nice writing. A gorgeous book for the gift season by a well-connected and highly motivated author. Ian Griffin writes: From my perspective the more people who get excited about seeing the aurora from here, the better. Since moving to New Zealand I have fallen in love with the Aurora Australis to the extent that I now have a magnetometer in my back garden to try and better figure out when I can see it. There are also some gorgeous places from where to see it (especially on the Otago Peninsula where I now live). I have taken tens of thousands of images too (mostly for time-lapse movies). The science behind the auroras is very interesting - essentially it is solar science and the phenomenon of solar flares, which interact with the Earth's atmosphere at certain latitudes, creating visual effects observable by the naked eye. Time lapse photography allows the effect to be captured in all its glory, against the backdrop of the Milky Way and vastness of space - a sense of the infinite, in other words.

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