Picture of the Day: Stunning Aurora Australis and Milky Way in Bluff wind farm

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The Bluff lights are to the left and a faint Aurora Australis, and a setting moon under the Milky Way can be seen from the Flat Hill Wind Farm in Bluff.
EDDIE GRIFFITHS/SUPPLIED The Bluff lights are to the left and a faint Aurora Australis, and a setting moon under the Milky Way can be seen from the Flat Hill Wind Farm in Bluff.
EDDIE GRIFFITHS/SUPPLIED
The Bluff lights are to the left and a faint Aurora Australis, and a setting moon under the Milky Way can be seen from the Flat Hill Wind Farm in Bluff.

Photographer Eddie Griffiths took some extraordinary shots from Flat Hill Wind Farm in Bluff, New Zealand.

With formal permission to shoot from the wind farm, Griffiths was able to catch a faint Aurora Australis whilst looking for the Milky Way.

EDDIE GRIFFITHS/SUPPLIED A faint Aurora Australis was visible at the Flat Hill Wind Farm in Bluff at the weekend.
EDDIE GRIFFITHS/SUPPLIED
A faint Aurora Australis was visible at the Flat Hill Wind Farm in Bluff at the weekend.

Griffiths used a mobile app called PhotoPills to work out the time when the moon and Milky Way would appear behind the turbines.

“I was really up there to shoot the Milky Way and managed to get a faint Aurora Australis,” he told The Southland Times.

“I was up there just after sunset on Saturday night and I’m pleased at how the pictures came out,” he said.

Comments

2 responses to “Picture of the Day: Stunning Aurora Australis and Milky Way in Bluff wind farm”

  1. Dave Avatar
    Dave

    Much prettier than a belching coal stack.
    Thank God Hockey can no longer be offended by this stunning view.

    1. Andrew Avatar
      Andrew

      He is probably still offended but, luckily, can’t do anything about it and no-one gives a toss what he thinks

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