This video is a slideshow of a series of photos I took with my drone as a storm approached Brisbane, with a strange phenomenon that I’m unfamiliar with.
You can see a horizontal bolt of lightning slowly crawling its way across the sky from left to right. What’s interesting is that each frame of the slide is an 8 second still, meaning that the bolt was visible in the sky for over a minute!
The video is just a slide show of 8 photos, each photo with an 8 second exposure, so the actual motion was over 1 minute. I wasn’t aware of it when I was actually doing the captures though, so I caught it “mid strike”. The stills I took before and after those 8 frames were pointed at a different section of the sky, so I don’t know if it ended with a big discharge