LIGHTNING
LIGHTNING AND AURORAS: You
don't see this every day--at least, not in Indiana. On Sunday
morning, Aug. 26th, Hongming Zheng trained his camera on an electrical
storm passing through West Lafayette. Just as a lightning bolt jumped
across a gap in the clouds, a patch of green appeared in the
background:
"It was the aurora borealis," says Zheng. "I took the picture around 3:33am as an unexpected geomagnetic storm
brought Northern Lights down to Indiana--a rare sight at 40°N.
Unfortunately, a full moon washed out most of the aurora. Otherwise it
would have been a spectacular green and red glow against a black
sky."
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