{"id":117,"date":"2025-04-12T00:10:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T05:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cosmopic.wordpress.com\/?p=117"},"modified":"2025-04-21T22:49:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T22:49:12","slug":"lightning-in-slow-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cosmopics.net\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Lightning Slow Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following videos were created with frame-by-frame clips from youtube video Lightning Strike at 103,000 FPS<\/a>, created by @theslowmoguys<\/a>. The original video was taken at 28.5K frames per second, or at 35 micro-seconds interval, and plays at 24 frames per second. Even when it is played at 1000 times slower details of lightening can still be easily overlooked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each lightening process, from development of stepper, to touching down, to white flash, and after, takes typically about 50 frames. The re-composited video plays each frame for 0.5 seconds, and the touch down frame for 2.0 seconds. With these videos the development of white flash can be seen clearly, and counted in number of frames.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In some of these videos, white flash can be seen growing out from ocean, and in others full length white flash follows right after a stepper. It is clear that the time between stepper and white flash is shorter than the time between frames, and a higher speed camera could be very nice. In “Lightning Slow Motion 8” two incidents of lightning making contact with ocean were captured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lightning Slow Motion #1<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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