Lightning flashes in the Galunggung ash plume in this long exposure photo from 16 September 1982. This 2.5-minute-long time exposure shows the lightning strokes in the eruption column and incandescent bombs on the outer flanks below the crater.

Photo by Jack Lockwood, 1982 (U.S. Geological Survey).

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Galunggung