Ridiculously awesome photo and time lapse of a stormcloud at twilight

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Jun 30, 2012 12:17 AMNov 19, 2019 10:58 PM

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I've been following photographer Jeffrey Sullivan on Google+ for a while now -- it's a great place to see the work of talented people, and that's where I found his lunar eclipse sequence I posted here last year. Jeff is really good, and gets amazing shots of the sky. But today he posted the best shot I've seen from him: this jaw-dropping composite photo of a cumulonimbus cloud spawning lightning below and with star trails above:

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