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Lightning Sprites
These pics are over a year old but I thought I'd put them up anyway as it's quite rare to observe them.
The vertical carrot like features in these frames from my Mintron video camera are Red Sprites. Sprites are associated with lightning and occur in the upper atmosphere. You may remember video from one of the Shuttle missions.
At first I thought these things in my frames were lens flare but the carrot like shapes in the last 2 frames helped identify them.
Sprites are best observed above a distant severe storm where from the observers point of view the sky is clear.
I never saw them with the naked eye, only captured them on a few video frames after a lightning flash.
Anyone else seen or photographed anything strange during a storm?
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