https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
> It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.
Oddly we will just have to take the author’s word for it, because no photographs depicting those rarer TLEs appear in this article.
I've never seen anything like that.
Thank you for sharing it on HN!
1. Jonny Kim: https://www.instagram.com/p/DKkj52PuO6h/
> My first time-lapse. Thanks to some instruction and tips from @Astro_Ayers, I caught my first aurora. After seeing the result, I told her this felt like fishing. Prepping the camera, the angle, the settings, the mount, then setting your timer and coming back to hope you got a catch. And after catching my first fish, I think I’m hooked. Thanks, Vapor!
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2. Don Petit: https://old.reddit.com/r/space/comments/xbmhz4/i_captured_so...
> These are Star Trails taken from my previous mission to the ISS, Expedition 30, in 2012. I call it "Lightning Bugs."... In the photo, stars make arcing trails in deep space, while a huge thunderstorm pounds Earth below as seen from the time history of lightning flashes.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250215124004/https://blogs.nas...
https://paulmsmithphotography.com/pages/what-are-red-sprites...
Sprites get their characteristic red color from excitation of nitrogen in
the low pressure environment of the upper mesosphere. At such low
pressures quenching by atomic oxygen is much faster than that of
nitrogen, allowing for nitrogen emissions to dominate despite no
difference in composition. As the atmospheric pressure increases in the
lower atmosphere, the red emissions are quenched and blue emissions from
atmospheric nitrogen excitation dominate. . .(photos of these forms of lightning)
Seems like human nature would be to zoom in on something of interest.
The convincing bit to me is the few frames you see when the ball "collapses".
I figured, with the advent of cameras everywhere we would have much more evidence of them by now, but I found almost nothing.
The prevalence of phone cameras in the modern world has shown that:
-Bigfoot doesn't exist.
-Police brutality does.
This blaringly loud blindingly bright ball of white light just meandered slowly towards the house, before striking the house and destroying most of our electronics and starting a small fire.
The noise was the most impressing part. It's difficult sound to fully explain, it sounded a lot like when a high power line fell near my house a couple years ago. Imagine you were an ant inside a running blender, it's that all-encompassing.
I will never forget it, I've never seen anything like it.
I asked her about this recently, but she doesn't remember.
Although as I was just looking up the ball lightning link it turns out there was a newly reported recording of ball lightning just a few days ago [1]?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
[1] https://globalnews.ca/news/11272805/alberta-storm-lightning-...
There is this video which shows the shape on the left and spectral image on the right: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v7/5
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_fGr-NlLTG8
Channel: NatureByJJ
Based in the Kimberley
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning#:~:text=Ball%...
pbarry25•7mo ago