Paranal red sprites
First imaged in 1989, red sprites are a ghostly phenomenon that occur at high altitudes above thunderstorms. Photographed here by ESO Photo Ambassador Petr Horálek, the unmistakable tendrils of multiple red sprites are spotted approximately 600 kilometres away from ESO's Paranal Observatory above distant thunderclouds.
To capture multiple sprites in one image, two exposures were combined. The upper sprite occurred nearly 21 minutes before the lower one.
In the foreground sits a lone 1.8-metre Auxiliary Telescope, part of ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT).
Crediti:P. Horálek/ESO
A proposito dell'immagine
Identificazione: | 150127paranal2345_rs |
Tipo: | Fotografico |
Data di pubblicazione: | Giovedì 10 Dicembre 2015 11:14 |
Dimensione: | 5427 x 3469 px |
A proposito delll'oggetto
Nome: | Auxiliary Telescopes, Paranal |
Tipo: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Categoria: | Paranal |