{"id":24578,"date":"2024-08-09T18:14:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T17:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=24578"},"modified":"2024-08-09T18:14:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T17:14:48","slug":"sprites-above-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=24578","title":{"rendered":"Sprites above Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This early morning&#8217;s (7 August 2024) stormy weather over southern Austria (northern Italy) was pretty active. While observing from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wikiloc.com\/trails\/outdoor\/czech-republic\/pardubicky-kraj\/ustupky\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00dastupky, Czech Republic<\/a> a beautiful, but elusive <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sprite_(lightning)\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Sprite<\/a> appeared, produced by a strong thunderstorm, which was located above Eastern Alps, about 390 km far from me. Their typical red color is caused by nitrogen emission about 50-95km high in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24579\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_12_RS_Sec_Italie_1500Px.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24579\" src=\"http:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_12_RS_Sec_Italie_1500Px-800x533.png\" alt=\"Sprites above Italy\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-large wp-image-24579\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_12_RS_Sec_Italie_1500Px-800x533.png 800w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_12_RS_Sec_Italie_1500Px-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_12_RS_Sec_Italie_1500Px-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_12_RS_Sec_Italie_1500Px-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/2024_08_12_RS_Sec_Italie_1500Px.png 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sprites above Italy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Used Canon Ra, Samyang 85mm, f1.4, ISO 2000, 5s exposure (from tripod).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This early morning&#8217;s (7 August 2024) stormy weather over southern Austria (northern Italy) was pretty active. While observing from \u00dastupky, Czech Republic a beautiful, but elusive Red Sprite appeared, produced by a strong thunderstorm, which was located above Eastern Alps, about 390 km far from me. Their typical red color is caused by nitrogen emission&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/?p=24578\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tempest"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24580,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24578\/revisions\/24580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petrhoralek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}