Fireball during electrical storm pic - WA

[fringe_dweller]

Hows this for a dramatic pic! - if that isnt APOD worthy, I dont know what is!
Taken with vid camera by a 'Desert Fireball Network' camera on the Nullabor plains, Western Australia. no date unfortunately but certainly recent-ish.

seems to be stitched together a bit - hmmmm weird shot!

its from a blog which in its self is cool :-)

http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/meteorite-blog/?m=200609

more of the blog

http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/meteorite-blog/


wonder if it was ball lightning instead!? just thought?
whaddoyallthink?

[leon]

Hey Kearn, that's fantastic, i love that shot, well done, lightning is my favourite subject.

Cheers leon

[stephenmcnelley]

That is a super cool fishbowl shot, but the fireball almost looks like it might be an optical abberation.:shrug:

[Ric]

What an amazing shot, very impressive.

great stuff

[fringe_dweller]

it's very nice eh guys :) personally I would love a wallpaper of that one :-)))))
I just thinking that it could be a stack of two vid frames maybe? being from video , fireball would be to slow mebbe for one frame?,
if that is just one frame that would be even more amazing I guess! there were no capture details.
Amazing to think that the guy running it and viewing the pics daily probably lives in London or somewhere like that, LOL gotta love the internet!

[iceman]

Looks like lightning, the way it's broken up like that.. I guess it could be a fireball?

Amazing picture, thanks for posting!

[acropolite]

Impressive, must have been one hell of a lightning storm.