Photographer captures timelapse of ‘red lightning’ in New Zealand – video

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Dan Zafra captured a timelapse of something he could only dream of – red sprites, also known as red lightning, flashing above the Milky Way – while photographing from the Clay Cliffs in New Zealand’s south island on 11 October. Red sprites are brief, large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorms, reaching altitudes of […]

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