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General Weather/Earth Sciences Topics => Lightning => Topic started by: Bunty on May 31, 2018, 02:35:55 PM
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Didn't know these things existed. Since they only last as long as lightening they're hard to capture in a photograph.
http://earthsky.org/todays-image/photo-lightning-sprite-over-oklahoma (http://earthsky.org/todays-image/photo-lightning-sprite-over-oklahoma)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz3wvXuJujU&t=21s (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz3wvXuJujU&t=21s)
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That is a good one. I agree that it is the best that I have seen.
Greg H.
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Nice find
That's a great picture!
I have seen video's of them taken from the Colorado Rockies looking east into Kansas.
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There was a PBS program a few years ago called "At the edge of space". It covered Sprites, and other phenomena.
The PBS site only shows a preview now, but I found it on YouTube (https://youtu.be/Tfryt3TILx0).
Greg H.
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There was a PBS program a few years ago called "At the edge of space". It covered Sprites, and other phenomena.
The PBS site only shows a preview now, but I found it on YouTube (https://youtu.be/Tfryt3TILx0).
Greg H.
I was going to mention that PBS "Nova" series program episode too (Season 40, Episode 23).
Here's the program link (below), it has a description, etc., and a full transcript. PBS now only makes program streams available for a short time, or to members (Passport), or you can buy a DVD/Bluray.
Can't blame them, they have to pay for producing this good stuff.
It was a danged good program, those sprites (and blue jets, etc) are scary weird stuff (Wikipedia link at bottom).
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/edge-of-space.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning