Twizel astrophotography enthusiast Jeff Ng says the region has seen a few auroras lately, after he captured a magnificent view on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
The Airbnb owner with a passion for photography took the colourful photo at Lake Ruataniwha about 10.30pm.<\/p>\n
“It wasn’t busy,” he said. “I was all alone in the dark, pretty much.”<\/p>\n
Ng said auroras had happened “quite often lately” in the area, but some monitoring was still require to take a good shot.<\/p>\n
“It all depends on the sun. It’s like rain, you know, you don’t just stand there and wait for the rain.<\/p>\n
“If it comes, it comes… so it’s similar with aurora.”<\/p>\n
Ng had practised as a photographer for almost six years now.<\/p>\n
“It’s a bit of a research, you know, kind of like when is the hot spot for the sun.”<\/p>\n
Keeping track of potential auroras had become easier through online resources like Glendale App and local Facebook groups.<\/p>\n
A former Wellingtonian, Ng was drawn to Twizel because of his hobby, moving there last June.<\/p>\n
Twizel is located within the Aoraki Mackenzie International Dark Sky Reserve, one of two reserves in the country, with the other being in Wairarapa.<\/p>\n
The reserve spans 4367 square kilometres, with other parts of the South Island certified as dark sky sanctuaries, including the more recent\u00a0T\u0101huna Glenorchy Sanctuary.<\/p>\n
Now that Ng had settled in his new home, he said his goal was to visit the South Island’s “top spots” for more aurora shots.<\/p>\n
“What I intend to do is have more time to travel the south, get a campervan or something, and then just travel Catlins or West Coast.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twizel astrophotography enthusiast Jeff Ng says the region has seen a few auroras lately, after he captured a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-330870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}