Photographer Captures Rare Photograph of a Sprite with an Aurora

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Check out this aurora photograph captured last Friday night by photographer Mike Hollingshead. See those small red squiggly lines in the sky? That’s an extremely rare form of lightning called a sprite. This photograph is one of the only times a sprite and an aurora have been captured in the same frame.

A couple of weeks ago, NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day website featured a sprite/aurora photograph by photographer Walter Lyons, and wrote at the time that Lyons’ image may be the first ever color photo of those two phenomenon together.

This photograph by Hollingshead may very well be the second.


Read more at http://petapixel.com/2013/06/03/photographer-captures-rare-photograph-of-a-sprite-with-an-aurora/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Wow. Thank you.

[leveymg]

2. Beautiful sky shots. But, I thought you were talking about a car show.

[DirkGently]

3. Excellent (nt).

[asjr]

4. I kept looking for Tinker Bell.

[femmocrat]

6. Me too.... I was hoping to see a fairy.

I didn't know that sprites were a weather phenomenon.

[niyad]

5. k and r--beautiful

[Marie Marie]

7. Amazing range of colors in that sky.

Beautiful.

[freshwest]

8. Wonderful. And the buildlings give great perspective. Much like some I took in the southwestern USA.

[bmbmd]

9. Thanks.

Magnificent.