Following the great Sprite's photos, here is some lightning that were caught during the great night of 24-25 October 2008. The images were taken by Roni Lapid. from his home at Maagan Michael. The storm was located over the coastal city of Haifa and the nearby bay. Most of the images are IC discharges, but there are several images of CG discharges on the Carmel ridge.
ILAN Science Team is an Israeli TLEs hunting project.
The sprite campaign began in 2005. Till now, we caught more then 100 TLEs (Sprites, Elves). Our research is focusing on Modeling, measuring and quantifying electromagnetic radiation produced by lightning associated with Transient Luminous Events (TLE's).
We have three stations:
* Tel Aviv Univeristy, Tel Aviv, Israel. * The Hebrew Univeristy, Jerusalem, Isreal. * Wise Observatory, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel.
Cool pictures. Especially I like the intra-cloud channels which look like what the theory predicts for a bi-polar leader process.
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