meteor, green atmosphere
Taken by KooKooLic on May 29, 2016 @
North Window @ Arches National Park, Moab, UT
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I'm from California and new to photography, just bought my first SLR (a Sony a6000) 8 months ago. As I ventured out hoping to capture the milky way a few nights ago in Moab, UT, this slow moving object (lasted ~4sec) took me by surprise. I was just setting up my camera, doing a test shot with 13s exposure. At 12:06am (MST), it came in from the right and I thought it was a plane at the first second or two, then it became bigger and brighter towards me. I realized it's moving much faster than a plane. Still wondering what it was (ufo? meteor?)..., then it started to move across showing a tail with big bright front. It must be a meteor, and I was dumbfounded to catch it on camera! (Wished it was on video mode to show you all) At the end, the front tip broke off like a space rocket detaching the booster, and both pieces just burnt off in our atmosphere. It was a crazy start for the night. Then, (40mins later) a couple of wolves started to howl, as the green light intensified over the south and southwest side of the sky. I know we don't get aurora at this latitude, esp when the Kp-index was low. Can you tell me what was this green atmosphere that got picked up by the camera & perhaps the wolves were howling at as well?
The pictures were straight out from my camera, haven't got the chance to edit them yet.
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