The South Island was treated to a spectacular Aurora Australis display Sunday night.
This display of the Southern Lights, as they're also known, measured seven on the Kp index, a measure of aurora activity. The maximum is nine.
On Sunday night, the lights were seen as far north as Motueka at the top of the South Island - roughly in line with Wellington.
An aurora is a light display in the sky, produced when high energy particles from solar wind or the sun hit the atmosphere, creating lights of different colours.
Some took to Twitter to show off the view where they were.
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