| ID | #1569856422 |
| Added | Mon, 30/09/2019 |
| Author | July N. |
| Sources | "Морской сборник", 1975, № 6
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| Phenomena | |
| Status | Result
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The captain of the ship "Moravia" A. Simpson 30 Dec 1902 near Islands Cape Verde made in the logbook the following entry:
"For a whole hour in the sky blazed lightning. Steel cables, the tops of the masts, knock-rays, etc. - everything glowed. It seemed, at all weight every four feet hung lighted lanterns, and on the ends of masts and knock Rey lit up the bright lights".
This is a typical example of the "fires of St. Elmo" - corona discharges generated in significant electric fields in the atmosphere.
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Crown Discharge (St. Elmo's Lights)
A continuous spark, which is usually described as a "blue flame" on the tops of ship masts, airplane wings, flagpoles, spires, street lights, trees and other tall pointed objects, where a smaller surface area requires less voltage to attract oppositely charged particles to each other. Sometimes it looks like small lightning bolts on the surface.
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