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Italian photographer Valter Binotto captured a rare and spectacular scene of red lightning phenomena, including sprites and ELVES, triggered by a powerful lightning strike over the Adriatic Sea, creating a scene reminiscent of science fiction and the film 'Independence Day.'
A rare photograph captured both elves and sprites, two types of transient luminous events occurring high above thunderstorms, in northern Italy, marking a once-in-a-lifetime sky spectacle. Valter Binotto used a Sony A7S to photograph this extraordinary event, which is significant because such dual phenomena are exceedingly rare to observe and photograph together.
Amateur astrophotographer Valter Binotto captured rare and spectacular images of ELVES, luminous red rings caused by upper-atmospheric lightning, over his Italian hometown for the second time, also photographing associated sprites and a unique combined frame, highlighting extraordinary atmospheric events.
A rare atmospheric event known as an ELVE, or Emission of Light and Very Low-Frequency perturbations due to Electromagnetic Pulse Sources, was captured on camera in the Italian sky. ELVES are an excitation of nitrogen in the atmosphere caused by electrical discharges, taking the color red like in the lower edges of northern lights. They are flat and can extend for hundreds of kilometers in the ionosphere. These peculiar events were only discovered in 1990 by the crew of Space Shuttle Discovery on the mission that sent the Ulysses probe to study the Sun.