Red Sprites

I recorded a long lasting red sprite display with my image intensified camera (night vision device) on the night Sep/6-7/2005. Sprites are electrical discharges that occur high above the cumulonimbus cloud of an active thunderstorm. They appear as luminous reddish-orange, neon-like flashes, last typically around 17 milliseconds, and are usually spawned by discharges of positive lightning between the cloud and the ground. Sprites usually occur in clusters of two or more simultaneous vertical discharges, typically extending from 65 to 75 km (40 to 47 miles) above the earth.
Also in the video in one blue jet. To my knowledege this is the first time a blue jet was captured on video in Europe.

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[wxchaser03]

no those are all red sprites. there are no blue jets.

[06solareclipse]

The blue jet is a 1:56.

[wxchaser03]

Im sorry to disapoint you but there is no blue jet at 1:56 or throughout this whole movie and im not a 15 year old that had to do a report on them. What you see is jokingly called a comb sprite, or a sprite that has a large horizontal distance with shorter vertical extending tendrils. blue jets as far as we know dont travel higher than 50 or so km while the sprite you are seeing there is probably about 70-80 km high.

[06solareclipse]

Hi wxchaser03,

just to clarify that we are talking about the same streak of light: I'm talking about the hardly visible light beam that rises just a bit above the tree near the center of the image at 1:56. It is much lower than all the other red sprite and it shows upward motion for about 3 frames. A second later red sprites with a large horizontal extension appear in the right half of the image. Maybe you are talking about these ones that are clearly red sprites.

[wxchaser03]

that is more than likely a farther away C sprite (Columniform sprite) There has not to my knowledge ever been a low light level video of a blue jet without a blue filter. the transmission of the weak blue signal is severely attenuated through the atmosphere especially at the distance the storm is away from you. The research facility I work at has recorded storms with LLTV since 1993 and has never recorded a blue jet. And we record about 500 hours of storms a year id guess.

[06solareclipse]

Thanks for your comment wxchaser03. I'll prepare a video in better quality and upload it to YouTube to identify the type of phenomenon.

[Serraxor]

Nice! at 2:16 you captured a meteor!

[iglotz123]

its chuck norris :/

[aquamarinedream]

is this real time or slowed down?

[TheKimTwister]

ok what are those blinking lights that look like airplanes

[TheKimTwister]

shooting star at 217 min

[TH3d0od]

@06solareclipse yeaa i see what you are talking about. It does look like a bluejet.

[tritanopia]

YouTube is being its usual glitchy self. I can't watch this video. It won't start playing.

[somprsn2525]

You shot this your self? Thats incredible!

Hey are these sprites and jets visible to the naked eye?

[softball18shawty]

you've also got a really nice meteor at the top of the screen at 2:17

[aquamarinedream]

were can you seen sprites? so you have to be at a certain elevation above or under the thunder storm to see them? And is it any place where a thunder storms hits?