Aurora
A solar storm hit Earth this weekend, and we happened to be out of the city, camping at Te Arai Point. There wasn’t a lot to see with the naked eye – just a bit of a shifting tint on the horizon – but my iPhone camera caught some pretty dramatic colours with 3-second exposures.
![The right half of the night sky with a vertical red beam](/_gen/images/b736e44f4da85381c2dc9687f2456a5d37d0f78cd5c58c5bb36a32fcea3b62fa_IMG_1532.webp)
![A tree on a hill, silhouetted in front of pink-through-red aurora in the night sky](/_gen/images/09b382e0fe03dcf456791cf95102c13990d209e2c8b5ba3253f04d3c11f20092_IMG_1533.webp)
![A tree on a hill, silhouetted in front of dramatic pink beams fading into a purple-tinted night sky](/_gen/images/e39637ea4017ba3cd70fdad59aecb5b9bd54e264fca505a4bff1af98db86d25a_IMG_1537.webp)
![A silhouetted hill-line in front of a red aurora](/_gen/images/ae0b573e8ec4c17fb99e55e0e0243ea095c2ce3ce9765e007dbde25484a7106e_IMG_1541.webp)
![A tree on a hill, silhouetted in front of an aurora which is yellow green at the base but fades into a deep purple as it gets higher](/_gen/images/cb69d4bc6e40dfe1b32d36620b941aabf6d542c5e592fe1004621d4e8310ca15_IMG_1548.webp)