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This Gigantic Jet TLE was captured from the International Space Station by
astronaut Matthew Dominick on July 1st while flying above Indonesia.
I re-processed the image from the raw file.

https://flic.kr/p/2q7VbaV

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos/photo.pl?mission=ISS071&roll=E&frame=319414

#RedSprites #giganticjet #tle #iss #lightning #astrodon #space

Gigantic Jet TLE captured from the ISS

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Aug 3, 2024 at 5:13pmWeb
Show threadNick has moved to MathstodonAug 3, 2024

@stim3on In case anyone else is wondering like I was, TLE stands for Transient Luminous Event in this context (see the wiki link below for more). Ironically, I work with space stuff, but the only TLE I was familiar with was the Two Line Element (a format for representing the trajectory of a satellite orbiting the Earth).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper-atmospheric_lightning

Upper-atmospheric lightning - Wikipedia

Show threadLt Cmdr KeyboardAug 3, 2024
@internic @stim3on thank you for the additional context
I had no idea what a TLE was or even how to go about googling it
Show threadNick has moved to MathstodonAug 3, 2024
@dunny0 Yeah, honestly I don't know how successful I would have been googling for it. I didn't get that far, because my wife was able to tell me what it was. @stim3on
Show threadÁngela Stella MatutinaAug 4, 2024

@stim3on

Note to self: TLE = transient luminous event, UAL = upper atmospheric lightning, ELVES = emissions of light and very low frequencies from electromagnetic pulse sources (???)