Phenomenon known as "dirty lightning" occurring at the 2015 Calbuco volcano eruption in Chile.

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image showing Phenomenon known as "dirty lightning" occurring at the 2015 Calbuco volcano eruption in Chile.

kolokoko334 on December 29th, 2022 at 08:56 UTC »

Might be important to say it is a timelapse

mangopurple on December 29th, 2022 at 12:13 UTC »

The most misleading image ever

Spartan2470 on December 29th, 2022 at 14:50 UTC »

Here is a higher quality and less cropped version of this image. Here is the source (eleven clicks to the right). Credit to the photographer, Francisco Negroni, who took this on April 23, 2015 and provided the following caption:

Photograph taken during the violent eruption of the Calbuco Volcano in Chile. Long exposure technique and tripod, camera raw edition.

According to here:

Technical data of the photograph: Camera Nikon D600 - Lens Nikon AF-S 80-200 f2.8. Image captured with exposure of 231 seconds, f5.6, iso 100 and to a focal length of 200 mm.

(It seems he removed the links with the information from his 500px page. But it really was there once).