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Nice one.
Many years ago (October 1989) I had set off for my usual Saturday night stargazing session in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, together with Andrew James. A dead calm, clear and quiet night started out looking promising, but as we were about to set up we were greeted by an aurora (see below). It came and went periodically in several waves, about 30 minutes apart. While it spoiled the observing session, we were quite content to sit back and watch for an hour or two.
While it may not be much of an aurora to some we were rather surprised to see one this far north. The big hill is Mt Banks, and the lights of Blackheath (due south of our site) are visible across the valley in one or two shots, and some of the constellations are fairly obvious. The bright object in the west was Jupiter.
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