Mawson Station chef turned aurora australis photographer revels in his finest photos so far

Auroras will be more frequent as the sun enters the 'solar maximum' — the period of greatest solar activity during the solar cycle.

As the sun enters the solar maximum — the period of greatest solar activity during its 11-year solar cycle — Mr Chambers said he has witnessed the best aurora of his life, and managed to get it on camera."Having chased them for so long, I find the beauty in everything, but seeing these … I've never experienced anything quite like it," he said."I've never really seen pink, I've seen red and green, there was a hint of blue, we had purples and we had oranges.

"Every single night that I am outside, I will see an aurora or a hint of an aurora," Mr Chambers said. "It was one streak, this ribbon, you know, that stretched across the sky, that was flapping like a flag in the breeze.""I went down to the water's edge thinking, well, this is what I want. And I looked up and there was nothing. I was a little bit gutted."

"The sun has an eleven-year period of magnetic activity and in one part of the cycle it's very quiet — there's very few sunspots and solar flares," Professor Cole said.

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