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"Sprite Lightning"

“About Sprite Lightning”

 

Sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are usually triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground. Sprites appear as luminous reddish-orange flashes. They often occur in clusters above the troposphere at an altitude range of 50–90 km (31–56 mi).

 

Sprites are sometimes inaccurately called upper-atmospheric lightning. However, sprites are cold plasma phenomena that lack the hot channel temperatures of tropospheric lightning, so they are more akin to fluorescent tube discharges than to lightning discharges.

 

Summer time is best to capture this phenomenon and much more like galaxy’s ring and planets and I’m exploring and working on it, so wait and watch for more wonders.

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Uploaded on July 28, 2018
Taken on July 15, 2018