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Sprites with Halo

Sprites with halo (red disk over the sprites), on Feb. 12-13, 2024, over thunderstorms at the Aegean Sea. Halos occur due to the same mechanism responsible for sprites, appear higher than them, at 70–85 km, last for some ms, and look like faint red disks with a typical diameter of less than 100 km.

TLEs (like red sprites) are upper atmospheric electrical discharges and they appear, under specific circumstances, above thunderstorms (e.g. red sprites appear at altitudes of 40-90 km).

I've used a #Sigma 85 mm lens at f/1.4, for 1/25'' with 40 k iso.

Check our recent #paper about TLEs from Greek-based observers, here: doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2023026009.

What is a red sprite? Info here: antisimvatikos.blogspot.com/2017/04/red-sprite.html

Photography and Licensing: doudoulakis.blogspot.com/

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

Taken in: Greece / Attica / Spata-Artemida / Loutsa (show map)

Taken on: February 13, 2024

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Halo

Sprites

Transient Luminous Events

Plasma Physics

nightscape

night lights

electrical discharges

clouds

storms

Sigma Art 85 mm f/1.4

Sigma Art lens

Attica

Aegean Sea

Greece

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Groups appears in: • Night Images • Whatever the weather more » • Night Lights • sky & clouds • After Dark - Night Photography • FlickrToday (only 1 pic per day) • Night Sky, The • Night Shot • Greek photographers-Ελληνες φωτογράφοι • Ελληνική Όμάδα Flickr • Sky @ Night • ` FLICKR ´ • Περιοδικό ΦΩΤΟγράφος • flickr (unofficial) • Hellenic Weather Photography • brilliant flickr • Sigma Art Lenses • in explore • All Photographers & Photographs welcome! • Nightphotography - All motives • Today's Flickr • Group for all users of FLICKR - No 30/60 Groups Limit • Sprites & (T)ransient (L)uminous (E)vents • Hellenic Photographers of the World - Έλληνες Φωτογ • All types of photo [No AI or SL] • Thunderstorms Europe (no limit !) • WONDERS OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN GENERAL.MARAVILLAS DE LA FOTOGRAFIA EN « less

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