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Apparent Dark Lightning Flashes

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ON the evening of the 5th of the present month we were visited by a severe thunderstorm, which passed practically over this place. The lightning was very vivid and at times occurred at intervals of only a few seconds. In order to photograph some of the flashes I placed a camera on my window sill and exposed four films for consecutive periods of 15 minutes each.

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LOCKYER, W. Apparent Dark Lightning Flashes. Nature 60, 391 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060391a0

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