Sprites! This is a first for me and maybe the first time photographed in Canada. Last night around midnight, near Virden, Manitoba, I was shooting a decaying storm with a hint of aurora on the horizon. These Red Sprites showed up above the lightning in the storm. I am approx 150km away from the storm in this photo. So what are sprites?? Sprites or red sprites are large-scale electrical discharges that occur high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a quite varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are usually triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and the ground. Sprites appear as luminous reddish-orange flashes. They often occur in clusters above the troposphere at an altitude range of 50–90 km (31–56 mi). Sporadic visual reports of sprites go back at least to 1886[1] but they were first photographed on July 6, 1989, by scientists from the University of Minnesota and have subsequently been captured in video recordings many…