Observation by Nick James: Sprites over northern France

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Nick James

Observer

Nick James

Observed

2024 Jul 30 - 23:25

Uploaded

2024 Jul 31 - 20:35

Objects

The Earth

Equipment

IMX291 + 6mm f/0.95

Exposure

1/25s

Location

Chelmsford, UK

Target name

Sprites

Title

Sprites over northern France

About this image

They are not astronomical but they do occur in the night sky. There were a lot of active thunderstorms over northern France last night but it was clear here so it was an ideal time to pick up sprites. I got quite a few events but these are the best ones, captured on my UK004E meteor camera which looks southeast from Chelmsford. The sprites are on a single frame of the 25 fps video and this animation is seven frames long. The raw video is here if you want to see how fast they really are.

Files associated with this observation

sprites_20270730_232555_ndj.gif (3.7 MB)

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Peter Tickner, Mike Harlow, Nick Hewitt, Gerard Cauchi, Mattia Piccoli, Gary Eason, Callum Potter, Steve Knight, Ian Jarrett

Comments

Gary Eason, 2024 Aug 01 - 15:23 UTC

I had not realised until now quite how brief they are. Impressive!

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