Dan Zafra captured a timelapse of something he could only dream of – red sprites, also known as red lightning, flashing above the Milky Way – while photographing from the Clay Cliffs in New Zealand’s South Island on 11 October.
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Red sprites are brief, large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorms, reaching altitudes of up to 90km. They are almost impossible to see with the naked eye and last just a few milliseconds
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