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05-03-2017, 06:52 AM
In one quick video, this guy captures space lightning, meteors and Aurora Australis
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Photographing the southern (or **rthern) lights can be a tiresome eventful, involving hours of standing around late at night, hoping to land yourself the perfect shot of cosmic activity.
Hence, we're pretty jealous of Australian photographer David Finlay, who in one night captured the Aurora Australis, a type of space lightning called "lightning sprites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning))," plus meteors and regular lightning.*
Finlay told ABC News (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-02/photographer-captures-rare-space-lightning/8486906) he was trying to capture the Lyrids meteor shower, and didn't realise at the time he had also caught some rare sprites over the south coast of New South Wales. It was only when the Kiama local reviewed the footage in slow motion that he saw the instance of space lightning, which happens high over thunderstorm clouds. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/02/one-night-southern-lights-sprites-australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Space Lightning (http://mashable.com/category/space-lightning/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Lightning Sprites (http://mashable.com/category/lightning-sprites/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Southern Lights (http://mashable.com/category/southern-lights/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Auroras (http://mashable.com/category/auroras/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Aurora Borealis (http://mashable.com/category/aurora-borealis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/KKlpY2VorGM
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Photographing the southern (or **rthern) lights can be a tiresome eventful, involving hours of standing around late at night, hoping to land yourself the perfect shot of cosmic activity.
Hence, we're pretty jealous of Australian photographer David Finlay, who in one night captured the Aurora Australis, a type of space lightning called "lightning sprites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite_(lightning))," plus meteors and regular lightning.*
Finlay told ABC News (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-02/photographer-captures-rare-space-lightning/8486906) he was trying to capture the Lyrids meteor shower, and didn't realise at the time he had also caught some rare sprites over the south coast of New South Wales. It was only when the Kiama local reviewed the footage in slow motion that he saw the instance of space lightning, which happens high over thunderstorm clouds. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/05/02/one-night-southern-lights-sprites-australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Space Lightning (http://mashable.com/category/space-lightning/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Lightning Sprites (http://mashable.com/category/lightning-sprites/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Southern Lights (http://mashable.com/category/southern-lights/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Auroras (http://mashable.com/category/auroras/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Aurora Borealis (http://mashable.com/category/aurora-borealis/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/KKlpY2VorGM