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).
Credit:P. Horálek/ESO
Over de afbeelding
Id: | 150127paranal2345_rs |
Type: | Fotografisch |
Publicatiedatum: | 10 december 2015 11:14 |
Grootte: | 5427 x 3469 px |
Over het object
Naam: | Auxiliary Telescopes, Paranal |
Type: | Unspecified : Technology : Observatory : Telescope |
Categorie: | Paranal |