Sprites and Milky Way
Taken by Josh Thum on July 1, 2014 @ Sayner, Wisconsin
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  Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 6D
Exposure Time: 20/1
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ISO: 1600
Date Taken: 2014:11:18 21:26:10
 
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(due to reduced file sizes images look grainy in thumbnail. please click on the images!) Back when I was 14 years old, last summer, I took a time lapse the night before my camera broke of the core of our milky way over Plum Lake in Sayner, Wisconsin. I had seen some posts recently of sprites, and I remembered back to how there was a storm just over the horizon in my pictures. I looked back frame-by-frame and found three possible candidates. I just wanted to confirm with you guys here at spaceweather that these are in fact sprites. Furthermore, if they are, does that make me the youngest to photograph them? :)
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Congratulations Josh !

YES, clearly, its sprites ! (The first one, on the left, is the clearer).

I dont know if someone had the strange idea to take a record of -age of sprites photographer-, but anyway, very good job for a teenager !!!
Congratulations !
Is the timelapse available somewhere ?
;-)
Posted by Sylvain 2015-06-15 05:19:45
Excelent job, Josh, and very nice airglow too!
Posted by eirexas 2015-06-15 06:19:23
Thank you for the kind words, everyone-

the time lapse is available as apart of this bigger time lapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MXtEdNNc5U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M03c2TENSvQ you will see another time lapse similar to the previous.
Posted by GangnamStyle 2015-06-15 14:13:13
The airglow is also much clearer in the time lapse version. :)
Posted by GangnamStyle 2015-06-15 14:14:24
 
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