Totally lightning. Not the cheap bottom shelf stuff, but the top shelf high energy kind. Likely, a rather strong terrestrial gamma ray burst source as well. At close range, any research craft nearby would likely have some major electronics issues from the radiation and pulse. Never underestimate the power of Mother Nature's bottle rockets!
@PaulMSmith sorry Paul, I needed a click bait title but then realised that most people wouldn't recognise it as lightning anyway. More like a bad firework photo. I was going to add some double quotes but totally forgot. Will edit the description
Thank you! My equipment is not that special, a Sony ZV-E1 and 85mm lens. I was just very lucky to be pointing in the right direction at the right time.
How rare were these in your video? In other words, of the lightning strikes you witnessed, what percentage would you estimate produced an LTE? Do you know if this was a particularly large lightning storm? Lightning from a distance is magical! Thank you for sharing!
Its hard to say for sure. I've only ever seen 2 in the last 5 years I've been shooting storms, and both were from this particular storm. Research indicates this is one of the rarest TLEs - there needs to be a very particular pattern of charge regions inside a storm for a large jet like this to form. A satellite mission back in 2004 documented over 300,000 TLEs worldwide, of that, 6% were sprites but only 0.3% were gigantic jets. The same mision found that while 70% of sprites occured over land and coasts, 70% of gigantic jets were over oceans reducing the likelihood of them being captured. Most gigantic jets happen to be caught by pilots from planes, or from observers in tropical areas with a lot of water around.
Sadly it would be quite boring! Gigantic Jets are huge, this one i estimated to reach about 85km so i had to be a loooong way away from it. At the distance I was at, not even a whisper.
Also, since sound travels much slower than light, at that distance the sound would be delayed by around 4 minutes. Great capture JJ! Very interesting phenomena!
Thanks dude! Yeah it's hard to explain to people who've never heard of these things before, unlike lightning which can be easily explained by a shock of static electricity from your finger.
@@naturebyjj yep, I've been saying for a while now that we should start calling them "storm aurora" instead of sprites because it more accurately describes them. 😆
One of the coolest natural phenomena!
This is incredible, beautiful capture!
Incredible work mate!
That is incredible JJ
Very cool. Definitely TLE lightning event
Totally lightning. Not the cheap bottom shelf stuff, but the top shelf high energy kind. Likely, a rather strong terrestrial gamma ray burst source as well.
At close range, any research craft nearby would likely have some major electronics issues from the radiation and pulse. Never underestimate the power of Mother Nature's bottle rockets!
Awesome!
Great capture
Artfully cinematic.
Wow this is fascinating!
Incredible catch man!
Thanks dude!
Beautiful.
That's brilliant JJ, subscribed in the hope of seeing more storm videos on your channel in the future 🙌
Thanks for the sub!
Looks like anti gravity particle
So good. Congrats
Cloud to ionosphere lightning :)
@PaulMSmith sorry Paul, I needed a click bait title but then realised that most people wouldn't recognise it as lightning anyway. More like a bad firework photo. I was going to add some double quotes but totally forgot. Will edit the description
Haha I don't think it matters. Potato potahto. The title is correct IMO. The capture is nuts. @@naturebyjj
Nice one!
Insane!
WOW!!!!!!!!
The ABC Radio Overnights with Michael “Pav” Pavlich program brought me here, after a segment on natural phenomena ❤
so good
Vraiment incroyable bravo ! Quelle camera utilisez vous et quelle paramètres ? La qualité est incroyable
Thank you! My equipment is not that special, a Sony ZV-E1 and 85mm lens. I was just very lucky to be pointing in the right direction at the right time.
@@naturebyjj et bien le resultat et top ! Bravo encore
How rare were these in your video? In other words, of the lightning strikes you witnessed, what percentage would you estimate produced an LTE?
Do you know if this was a particularly large lightning storm?
Lightning from a distance is magical! Thank you for sharing!
Its hard to say for sure. I've only ever seen 2 in the last 5 years I've been shooting storms, and both were from this particular storm. Research indicates this is one of the rarest TLEs - there needs to be a very particular pattern of charge regions inside a storm for a large jet like this to form. A satellite mission back in 2004 documented over 300,000 TLEs worldwide, of that, 6% were sprites but only 0.3% were gigantic jets. The same mision found that while 70% of sprites occured over land and coasts, 70% of gigantic jets were over oceans reducing the likelihood of them being captured. Most gigantic jets happen to be caught by pilots from planes, or from observers in tropical areas with a lot of water around.
Oh my god!
Slowed it down by 0.25 for better
i want to hear it without added music..... what noises are made by these?
Sadly it would be quite boring! Gigantic Jets are huge, this one i estimated to reach about 85km so i had to be a loooong way away from it. At the distance I was at, not even a whisper.
Also, since sound travels much slower than light, at that distance the sound would be delayed by around 4 minutes. Great capture JJ! Very interesting phenomena!
Nice capture! Sprites aren’t lightning. 😀👍
Thanks dude! Yeah it's hard to explain to people who've never heard of these things before, unlike lightning which can be easily explained by a shock of static electricity from your finger.
@@naturebyjj yep, I've been saying for a while now that we should start calling them "storm aurora" instead of sprites because it more accurately describes them. 😆
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