• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Red Sprite Phenomenon and TS

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william mattil

All,

Hopefully not too far off topic, a German fellow managed to image a phenomenon called Red Sprites that associated with Thunderstorm Activity. Apparently these are quite elusive.

http://www.parhelia.de/storm/2010/sprite07.jpg

Taken with a very sensitive Cooled CCD Camera (Monochrome with a Red Filter).

And a technical discussion on the subject:

http://elf.gi.alaska.edu/

Anyone seen these visually ? Or catch them using a traditional DSLR ?

Regards

Bill
 
william mattil said:
All,

Hopefully not too far off topic, a German fellow managed to image a phenomenon called Red Sprites that associated with Thunderstorm Activity. Apparently these are quite elusive.

http://www.parhelia.de/storm/2010/sprite07.jpg

Taken with a very sensitive Cooled CCD Camera (Monochrome with a Red Filter).

And a technical discussion on the subject:

http://elf.gi.alaska.edu/

Anyone seen these visually ? Or catch them using a traditional DSLR ?

Regards

Bill
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I've seen it once when I was camping on a mountain top. It was a complex of thunderstorms some distance off to the west. It fired off a couple of those over an hour or so. (Might have been more. I was, um, preoccupied with, well let's just say important sociological studies. :D )

Never caught one on camera and I know precisely NOTHING about them. Definitely an interesting phenomenon.
 
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