May 23rd 2014: Lightning.

[Carruthers]

Originally Posted by BigV

It is a lovely photograph.

Yes, it featured prominently on the front page of The Times on Wednesday this week, and in several other national newspapers as well.

Thanks for the explanation of the technicalities. I wouldn't have a clue where to start, but at least I can appreciate the end product.

This is somewhat tangential to the thread, but this letter appeared in The Times this morning:

It is 500 years since Henry VIII signed the decree which put Trinity House in charge of navigation

Sir, Your front-page photograph (May 21) of lightning over the Trinity House lighthouse at St Catherine’s Point on May 20 was more than a good photo — it was a unique celebration of 500 years of the service Trinity House has given to mariners around our shores; for it was on May 20, 1514, that Henry VIII signed a decree directing Trinity House “to regulate pilotage navigation of shipping in our streams”.

Trinity House has been doing that ever since, and St Catherine’s is one of the many hundreds of seamarks we have around our coast marking our shipping lanes and keeping our mariners safe. As an acknowledged world leader in the safety of navigation it is fitting that its 500th anniversary should be so recognised.

Jeremy de Halpert

Petersfield, Hampshire.