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   From: fungus@amongus.com.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 1 Aug 2025 21:16:57 -0000 (UTC)   
   Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote:   
      
   > And that gives the time:   
   >   
   >    The present-day reanalysis focused on an exceptionally long megaflash   
   >    within this QLCS initiated at 08:56:45.834 UTC on 22 October 2017.   
   >   
   > I think eastern Texas is Central Time, and I think it would have still   
   > been summer (daylight savings) time on that date. So that would be   
   > UTC-5, about 4am in the morning. Probably not too many people observing   
   > locally.   
      
   Nice work!  Yes, that would explain it.   
      
   Shame to miss it.  Imagine seeing a lightning bolt start from somewhere   
   over one horizon, flash across the sky, and proceed straight across the   
   opposite horizon.  Would have been breathtaking.  500+km, wow.   
      
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