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IN the February number of NATURE just to hand I find an interesting account of this aurora. It may interest your readers to know that a very fine aurora was visible at Eden, 230 miles south of Sydney, at the same time. The notice sent me states that the aurora was visible from 1 A.M. to daylight of Feb. 5 (i.e. from 3 P.M. to 7 P.M. Feb. 4, Greenwich time); the auroral light extended from S.E. to S.W., and to an altitude of 60°. No other particulars were sent by the person who saw it; but it would appear that the auroral display must have commenced before it was observed in Europe.
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RUSSELL, H. The Aurora of Feb. 4. Nature 6, 202 (1872). https://doi.org/10.1038/006202a0
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