Red Sprites From ESO

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Red Sprites from ESO
Taken by Petr Horálek on January 20, 2015 @ La Silla and Paranal, Chile

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Date Taken: 2015:04:16 20:57:12

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The red sprites seen and captured from the ESO's observatories La Silla and Paranal on late January 2015. More can be found here http://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1505a/ and here http://www.astronom.cz/horalek/?p=1143.

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http://www.astronom.cz/horalek

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Petr,

In your panoramic image, you also have caught a few patches of red airglow - the horseshoe-shaped red area at the top being quite striking.

DZ

Posted by owleye1 2015-05-26 19:34:21

Dear DZ,

The red horseshoe shape up there is not an airglow but the large Vela nebula. The camera is modified (you can also find the Rosetta nebula close to the right part of the guardrail of the Danish dome). But just a few hours before the storm started to produce those TLE, there was really strong red airglow above the storm shaped to the gravitional waves. Even those images I have. It was truly wild night :-)

Petr

Posted by Petr Horalek 2015-05-27 03:16:51

Dear Petr,

I stand corrected. I have observed and imaged quite a few oddly shaped patched of red, green (and blue) airglow over the years, and never having imaged the southern skies, had no idea this nebulosity in Vela recorded so well!! Thanks for pointing this out to me.

DZ

Posted by owleye1 2015-05-31 15:49:08

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