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[Yucca]

Shame you can't borrow the camera that took this awesome footage of lightning in slow-mo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm7--Q9-OH8

[michaelpaul]

Shame you can't borrow the camera that took this awesome footage of lightning in slow-mo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm7--Q9-OH8

Another good vid, Luc.

Appreciate your hard work, again.

[hoptoad]

These discharge experiments are more closely related to natural phenomenon than one might expect. The association of the "sprite" with the discharge is IMO a natural association.

In the last 10 years, "sprites" have been studied in great detail by meteorologists, with the aid of satellites. It is well documented that these sprites are directly associated with thunderstorms in general, and lightning discharge activity in particular.

The sprites appear well above the discharge zone of cloud to ground and cloud to cloud lightning discharges, and are incredibly large in volume.
The actual colour of the sprites can vary, according to a number of atmospheric/charge variables.

The study of these sprites has raised more questions about the nature of lighning than it has answered. In fact, in a recent interview, the CEO of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, candidly revealed, that after the recent meeting of world wide meterological experts in Canberra, the general consensus remained, that they still know very little about the true mechanisms of lightning creation by nature.

Now many plasma experts are theorising that lightning is not primarily the result of charge building up in the clouds due to previously commonly accepted principles, but rather, the clouds/atmospheric conditions merely provide a convenient discharge path for ionised particles borne by or created by the solar wind (plasma), in which the earth is constantly bathed. In other words, lightning is directly driven by the ionised plasma from the sun not from molecular electrostatic action within the clouds.

Either way, the sprites are worthy of study in their own right, and may help to piece together an understanding of the whole nature of high energy plasma discharges.

Cheers  keep up the good work all.

[gotoluc]

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[gotoluc]

Shame you can't borrow the camera that took this awesome footage of lightning in slow-mo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm7--Q9-OH8

Hi Yucca, thanks for your comments. The DV Camera I use is NTSC so 29.97 FPS. One positive thing we have over the PAL or Secam System which is 23.976 FPS

I have no luck with modern measuring electronic equipment and the spark event as it makes the equipment useless. See my Krupa Spark plug video to get the idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrrPu7AI50w

Nice lightning video, thanks

In a week or so I'll do a test with a high frame rate video camera with the spark triggered at a fix frequency.

Stay tuned.

Luc