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"Lord of the Rings"

This red/pink ring (actually it's a torus in 3D space) is an ELVES (Emission of Light and Very Low Frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources) event that happened over an active storm cell close to the borders of N Greece and SW Bulgaria on 2001 UTC, 11.10.2021. It's very rare to come across such an intense ELVES event. I've used a Sigma Art 20 mm lens at f/1.4 with 32k iso and a Sigma Art 85 mm lens at f/1.4 with 51.2 k iso. The yellow light behind the clouds, lower in the image, is the flash of the parent lightning strike. A video of the event can be found here: youtu.be/EYG4dE6KcqY

 

More about the Greek Team chasing red sprites and TLEs in general: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2019/05/tles-greek-archive-of...

 

Photography and Licensing: doudoulakis.blogspot.com/

 

My books concerning natural phenomena / Τα βιβλία μου σχετικά με τα φυσικά φαινόμενα: www.facebook.com/TaFisikaFainomena/

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Uploaded on October 25, 2021