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STANDING by the Hampstead Heath flagstaff last Friday evening (12th), a few minutes before ten, I witnessed a feeble but characteristic display of the Aurora Borealis. Looking to the north-west, and midway between Ursa Major and the horizon, was a speck of pale bluish-green luminousness. While wondering as to the cause, a flickering shaft of crimson-tinted light shot upward in the direction of the “Pointers.” This was followed by other streamers and “glows,” sometimes white, sometimes slightly coloured. Occasionally patches of hazy light would be formed, through which the stars could be seen, and once a number of horizontal bands or waves passed upward from the horizon in quick succession, travelling almost to the star G in Ursa Major before they faded away. At 10.20 p.m., when I left the spot, the streamers had apparently ceased, but the sky was still luminous. Throughout the display was very faint and the colours very weak—mere tints.
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BUTCHER, A. Aurora Borealis. Nature 46, 368 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046368b0
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