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Shots of the southern stars and the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights, these are the southern hemisphere equivalent of the Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights.
Taken during the Antarctic winter in the general vicinity of McMurdo Station and Scott Base.
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Star trails, looking straight up over about 2 hours the movement of the stars create an overhead circular pattern. The green bits in the sky are from some auroras that passed though the shot.
Satellite Dome lit up from within, with an aurora trailing across the horizon in the distance
Bust of Admiral Bird, first person to fly to the South Pole.
Aurora over one of the dormitory buildings at McMurdo Station.
Looking north behind McMurdo Station, an aurora hangs in the sky above the dome that houses the NASA satellite ground station on the ridge.
Two Pisten Bully vehicles traversing across the Ice Shelf from Black Island back to McMurdo in foggy conditions with an aurora overhead turning the lighting green. Temperatures were approx -55 C out on the ice shelf this day, so I only managed one or two photos before the camera froze.
Black Island station at 11.15am in the morning in July.
Aurora over Scott Base, Antarctica. A fog bank is rolling in from the South.
Aurora Over Scott Base Antarctica. The Moon is rising over White Island to the South East.
Two Pisten Bully vehicles traversing across the Ice Shelf from Black Island back to McMurdo in foggy conditions with an aurora overhead turning the lighting green. Temperatures were approx -55 C out on the ice shelf this day, so I only managed one or two photos before the camera froze.
Two Pisten Bully vehicles traversing across the Ice Shelf from Black Island back to McMurdo in foggy conditions with an aurora overhead turning the lighting green. Temperatures were approx -55 C out on the ice shelf this day, so I only managed one or two photos before the camera froze.
Two Pisten Bully vehicles traversing across the Ice Shelf from Black Island back to McMurdo in foggy conditions with an aurora overhead turning the lighting green. Temperatures were approx -55 C out on the ice shelf this day, so I only managed one or two photos before the camera froze.
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Keywords: night snow ice scott station south northern lights southern green powell winter stars pole cold aurora bully base antarctica anthony mcmurdo pisten antz
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