hehe yeah... my other picss are around the 5 minute mark... but i stopped this one at 71seconds, because the metor went straight through the pic.. firstly i didnt want the pic too over exposed and secondly i figured i could superimpose two images on each other.. to get the sense oof it... u can kinda make out the LMC. This was also taken with a ISO of 800 too.
Hi All,
Great shot Rowena,
I am not sure if it was the same thing as I saw,Certainly looks like it.
I was also out about that time looking through a pair of 11x56 binoculars at the pleiades,and a meteor, or something came across my fov,it had an incredible smoke trail.
It is possible we saw the same thing,as I think the lmc,and smc were at a similar level in the sky,at about that time.
I didn't have time to follow it,it was just too fast,and gave me such a shock I didn't have any time to react,I dont think I could have followed it anyway, despite the 6 deg fov of the binos,as it was there and gone in a split second.
I have heard these things often described as BOLIDES,although again I am not sure if that was what this was.
Just cant get over that smoke trail,unbelievable.
I have seen these things flying through the sky many times now,and last year, saw one that APPEARED so close I thought it was going to hit the neighbours house,I am also sure I could hear it,as it went past.
Regards.John
i saw the perfect metor tonight! a mag -5 to -6.. and whats perfect about it... it all happened where i had pointed my camera!
was taking some wide field of the large and small magellic clouds and this huge fireball came across the FOV.
Rajah - look what u missed out on!
Great catch mate! A little meteor flashed across my Iridium field last night while the shutter was open too.... must have been too faint would have been cool to have both in the shot.... may have to use my 50mm 1.8 lens next time.....
Love meteor flashes!
i saw the perfect metor tonight! a mag -5 to -6.. and whats perfect about it... it all happened where i had pointed my camera!
was taking some wide field of the large and small magellic clouds and this huge fireball came across the FOV.
This looks very much like a iridium flare, meteors dont image quite so defined.
And you can see how it ramped up and down. However doing a lil processing
on your image, it appears that whatever it was went smack bang through the
middle of what looks like SMC, great catch!
It was definatly a metorite... it actually looked like it was lower in the atmosphere then any others. It was a bright green with a slight bit of blue in it. I thought it may of been an iridum at first, but it definatly wasnt. out of the view of the camera you could see it pittering out....
I have stacked it with a second image of the same area of sky.. but much longer exposure so you can make out the SMC and LMC.
unfortunatly a fair bit of noise in the pics.. but im still very happy with it!
fair enough, Heavens above didn't have any predictions for your area on Sunday night, but then again they have been known to be wrong on occassion.
here is a take on your original, and noisie too... but you can see it went smack bang through one of the MC's, to me it looks like SMC with a faint 47 Tuc just below it. Or it could be LMC with the Tarantula neb towards the top.
regards,CS
Edit: Actually looking at your latest I think mine is all noise lol especially either side of the trail of light, Oh well I think I need to head to bed, I've done three over nighters in a row, and my brain is running as rough as my car at present.
Rowena absolutely magic capture of a fireball I took the liberty of studying it a bit - it appears to travel around 44º in length!!!!!! - starting up past Achernar there and down thru the goalposts - GOAL!!. It may even have pedigree and be from the Anthelion source, although it doesnt follow the 2.5x distance travelled rule properly.
I would think an iridium flare travels a lot slower than most meteors - at least the ones i have seen do,and look quite different, it definitley looks like a meteor to me in the pic.
A bolide is when the fireball or meteor ends in a much brighter terminal flash/explosion at a stationary point - and in some definitions that has to be accompanied by a sonic boom!!?. The ones I personally call bolides are the very bright flashes you see that have no meteor trail or meteor/cntral nucleus - but just appear with no warning as very bright bursts/exposions of light in the sky out of the blue, and light up the ground like a camera flash going off - sometimes they come in pairs and triples - I used to see a lot more of those type than i do now. I read once that these type are big meteors that are too big and at the wrong angle to sneak thru and penetrate the atmosphere and they explode on first contact with the dense atmosphere of earth at the edge of space - sometimes releasing the energy of an atomic bomb.
Kearn
fringe-dweller you have described exactly what we saw... a bollide.. however there was no sonic boom.
The metor was bright for about 4 seconds with an extremely bright mag... so it travelled that 44degrees (distance) in that amount of time. It was a bright green with a slight amount of blue in color and absolutely light up the observing site we were at.
Nice pic., Rowena. Methinks, definitely a meteor. Too late at night for an Iridium, + wrong direction.
I'm sorry I couldn't attend again, but 3 nights in a row is just too much. Petrol costs you know. L.
would have been cool to have both in the shot.... may have to use my 50mm 1.8 lens next time.....
I took the liberty of studying it a bit - it appears to travel around 44º in length!!!!!! - starting up past Achernar there and down thru the goalposts - GOAL!!. It may even have pedigree and be from the Anthelion source, although it doesnt follow the 2.5x distance travelled rule properly.
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Note to self: must stay out all night looking for one
