Scenic Adelaide » Elder Hall http://www.scenicadelaide.com Sites & Stories of Adelaide And South Australia Sun, 18 Jul 2010 11:24:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 The Spectacular Northern Lights Display In Adelaide http://www.scenicadelaide.com/2008/03/29/the-spectacular-northern-lights-display-in-adelaide/ http://www.scenicadelaide.com/2008/03/29/the-spectacular-northern-lights-display-in-adelaide/#comments Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:53:58 +0000 Aussie http://www.scenicadelaide.com/2008/03/29/the-spectacular-northern-lights-display-in-adelaide/

Last night I went to view the Northern Lights display in Adelaide, and I am here to say that it was nothing short of spectacular. They say that up to 15,000 people a night go to check out the display of 70 different projections of light that is projected on the facades of the State Library, SA Museum, Art Gallery, Elder Hall, Mitchell Building and Bonython Hall. My only gripe was that the displays changed every five minutes and I found it a little tedious.

The Northern Lights were created using digital software and giant French-made PIGI system projectors that each weighed more than 200kg. I reckon I was extremely fortunate as I caught the last display.

I noticed that although there were a lot of people taking photos with there camera phones or digital cameras, very few actually used tripods and I am afraid all those who didn’t use a tripod will be disappointed with their photos. These are some that I took. Clicking on any photo will enlarge the photo.


Bonython Hall


Bonython Hall1…..Bonython Hall2

SA Museum

Sa Musem1…..Sa Museum2

SA Library

SA Library…..SA Library1

Mitchell Building

Mitchell Building…..Mitchell Building3

Elder Hall

Elder HAll1…..Elder Hall2

Art Gallery

Art Gallery…..Art Gallery1


All these shots were taken with my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX50. This is a digital 7.2 mega pixel camera and I used the Scene mode that was set on night scenery, the shutter speed being set to the maximum 8 seconds.

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