aurora australis

the Southern equivalent for Aurora borealis.

1790. J. White, `Voyage to New South Wales,' p. 214:

«Sept. 5, 1788. About half after six in the evening, we saw an Aurora Australis, a phenomenon uncommon in the southernhemisphere.»

aurora australis or borealis
The extraordinary and luminous meteoric phenomenon which by its streaming effulgence cheers the drea...

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australis
austrālis, e, adj. [1.auster, II.], southern (syn.: austrinus, meridianus): quae (regio) tum est aq...

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australis
austrālis e, adj.auster, southern : regio: cingulus, the torrid zone : ora: polus, O. ...

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aurora
aurōra, ae, f. [acc. to Curtius, a reduplicated form for ausosa, from Sanscr. ush, to burn; cf. αὔως...

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aurora
aurōra ae, f AVS-, the morning, dawn, daybreak : rubescebat stellis Aurora fugatis, V.: ad primam ...

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Aurora
·noun A species of crowfoot. II. Aurora ·noun The rise, dawn, or beginning. III. Aurora ·noun The ...

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aurora
The faint light which precedes sunrising. Also the mythological mother of the winds and stars. ...

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piscis australis
One of the ancient southern constellations, the lucida of which is Fomalhaut. ...

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aurora borealis
See aurora australis ...

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