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15 Dec 2025
2025 Geminid meteor shower.
Meteors from the night of 12/13-12/14.
I captured a few. 🙂
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More red sprites from Wednesday night.
These are max value stacks of multiple frames from video to cover each sprite event which lasted less than 1 second each.
Sony A7s III, Sigma 85mm f/1.4 art lens.
1/24sec exposure at f/1.4 and ISO 80,000
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Red Sprites and Green Ghosts! - 6/10/2026 The Night of the Jellyfish youtu.be/76j4_Imux0g?si=-Grq… via @YouTube
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4 clips from Wednesday night of red sprites that produced the brighter green ghosts at 1/4 speed to show detail.
Even at 1/4 speed you can see how fleeting red sprites are.
Green ghosts are the faint green glow left behind after the red sprites.
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One more really cool red sprite from last night as I'm still working on all the data. A good problem to have!
Time for me to get some rest.
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Red sprites from last night.
Last night was crazy. I captured over 60 individual sprite events.
Captured from southern Minnesota looking toward the storm over Missouri / Illinois.
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Red spites from last night that produced green ghosts.
Captured from southern Minnesota looking toward the storms over Missouri / Illinois.
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One of many amazing red sprite events from last night.
Notice the green glow after the sprite. That is known as a green ghost.
I captured at least 7 green ghosts last night and I still have more footage to review.
Captured from southern Minnesota looking southeast.
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A closer view of the jellyfish red sprite from last night.
This was with an 80mm lens to get more detail but of course it ended up at the edge of the field.
Hoping for another chance tonight. It looks promising.
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A nice jellyfish sprite from last night.
Captured from southern Minnesota looking toward the storm over Nebraska/South Dakota
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Red sprites last night with the Venus-Jupiter conjunction and lightning bugs!
Captured from southern Minnesota.
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The storms in Nebraska/South Dakota are producing red sprites.
If you can see clear skies above any of the storms in the region you might be able to capture some red sprites as it gets dark.
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A stack of the better red sprites I captured 5/31.
I am hoping for a chance to capture some more tonight.
Captured from southern Minnesota looking toward a storm over northwest Iowa.
The jellyfish steals the show.
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Red sprites I captured the night before last. 1/6 speed to show detail.
Captured from southern Minnesota looking toward a storm in southern Iowa.
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I think I may have captured a couple elves last night.
Here are 2 clips slowed down. In each case, a very faint red glow preceded a red sprite by 1 frame.
These were at 23:28:56 and 23:29:17 CDT
Captured from southern Minnesota looking toward a storm in southern Iowa.
Thoughts?
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Some red sprites from last night.
Captured from southern Minnesota looking above the storms in southern Iowa.
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The storm in southern Iowa is producing red sprites.
If you can see clear skies above this storm you might be able to capture red sprites.
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Red Sprites 5/31/2026 - My best so far! youtu.be/0sn2JsHkJZI?si=u2-g… via @YouTube
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14 years ago today, Venus solar transit.
At the time I was cursing the clouds only to find out the images with clouds became my favorite.
6/5/2012
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