Uploaded November 2018 | Updated September 2026, 15 hours ago

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SiOnyx Aurora, coupled to a PVS-14, captures lighting sprites above the Big Island of Hawaii. The sprites were captured between 2:42 and 2:55 a.m. HST on November 3rd 2018.


Aurora Video Settings:
Scene - Night
Night Glow - Greyscale
Frame Rate - 60fps recorded frame rate (Slow Motion)
Resolution - 720p
HDR - off
Exposure Comp - minus 1.0 

L3 PVS-14 with an L3 11769UG (P43) image intensifier and Fujinon optics.

#sionyx #lightningsprites #blacksiliconsensor #digitalnv #lowlightcamera #diyiccd #diynightvisioncam #spaceweather
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International Observers of Upper-Atmospheric Electric Phenomena facebook.com/groups/376355972487572

Sprite photo gallery: spaceweathergallery.com/index.php?title=sprite
spaceweathergallery.com/index.php?title=sprite

PBS NOVA produced an excellent documentary on TLE's (At the Edge of Space) which can be found here: pbs.org/video/nova-edge-space

New Mexico Tech (Sprites and ELVES):
http://ibis.nmt.edu/sprites/sprites.html
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