Hey Zeus!

Ever want to capture a lightining bolt?
I managed to get this one by waiting for a lightning strike by video-taping the storm.

Afterwards, I broke up the video with sequential stills broken into 30 frames/second and looked for the ones that caught the bolt.

What was interesting about this frame is that the camera captured spots of fuschia at various intervals up the bolt. I'm not sure if you can see them in this pic or not, particularly near the top, middle and bottom of the bolt, but compared to the other frames these fuschia spots on this one showed up more obviously.

Those into spectrum analysis may find it of some interest. Perhaps the heat is reacting with the surrounding atmosphere to cause a chemical reaction thus creating a particular gas at these places which can be determined by the colour (not my forte) or maybe my camera is just reacting to the intensity of the heat.



It took about 8 frames to capture the bolt altogether. This is the last frame where you can see just a hint of where the bolt was.

Now, on a lighter side - with pun intended - how 'bout this bongonews article on God sending a lightning bolt to zap Ted Kennedy...