Here on the East coast of the US, the spring equinox is at 12:14 a.m. on Tuesday, March 20.
Sorry, Southern hemisphere.
What you see is real, but you can't see it this way with the naked eye. It is the result of thousands of 20-30 second exposures, edited together to produce the timelapse. This allows you to see the Milky Way, Aurora and other Phenonmena, in a way you wouldn't normally see them.