Red Sprite Phenomenon and TS

[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

 

[Chris Lindemann]

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

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. )

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