Heavenly electricity and cosmic dust

Amateur astronomer Martin Popek from the Czech Republic is also "hunter sprites". Every night it auto camera in Nejdek scan the sky, searching these upward lightning. On 14 August during the peak of the meteor shower the Perseids sparked a "storm sprite".

According to Martin Popeka, the sky over Nadcom crossed the meteors and sprites. He created this composite image to give a full view of the raging heavenly performance.

Sprites beat from of mesoscale weather systems, at the same time, the Perseid stars rain down from the heavens. The Perseids are the result of the passage of the Earth through the plume of dust particles released comet swift — Tuttle. Thus, the photo captures a rare fusion of heavenly electricity and decaying cosmic dust.

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»