Huge Green Fireball

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Huge green fireball
Taken by Monika Landy-Gyebnar on April 8, 2018 @ Veszprem, Hungary

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Date Taken: 2018:04:08 21:48:56

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I was out photographing sunset then waited until ISS and somewhat later Progress MS-07 came, the fireball fell in the time between the two spacecrafts. I have not seen it directly just its flash as I was capturing Venus above my hometown with the other camera... The flower in the foreground is a local pasque flower (Pulsatilla nigricans) which I wanted to include in the pic of ISS. According to our videometeor network and direct observations, the fireball was very bright, cca. -10 magnitudes!

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Woooow!! Fortuitous capture - nice color.

DZ

Posted by owleye1 2018-04-09 19:10:26

Thanks a lot Doug! :)

Posted by LandyGyebnar 2018-04-09 21:10:15

Congratulation. A nice shot of a rare sight.
The stem of the flower and the fireball have the same shape.

/*Peter R

Posted by Peter R 2018-04-10 02:37:00

Bravo for this incredible shot !
You were working for shooting the ISS ... you got a nice present :)

Posted by sweiller 2018-04-10 02:44:15

ISS ... Impressive Shooting Star ... ;-)

Posted by Klipsi 2018-04-10 12:24:18

According to your time description, we saw that fireball too! Also, check Karoly Jonas recording from Budapest. Its the same one! We saw it from Aleksandrovo, Serbia (Banat, Vojvodina). We went out to observe Venus and ISS, and this fireball appeared about 10 degrees above the western horizon at 18:47 UT. It was very, very bright with a red core along its sky trail. The trail was about 3 degrees long. We heard no sound. Observation team: Tatjana and Ivan Macus, Slavica Macusev and Nenad Trajkovic.

Posted by ntrajkovic 2018-04-10 14:17:35

Thank you Peter! :)

Posted by LandyGyebnar 2018-04-10 19:04:05

Thank you Sylvain! :)

Posted by LandyGyebnar 2018-04-10 19:04:28

Thanks a lot, Nenad! Im in contact with other observers :) This fireball was really a great eevnt for Central Europe, well timed in the early evening so MANY people could observe it.

Posted by LandyGyebnar 2018-04-10 19:06:02

Great shot, Monika! Im impressed and Im glad with you : )

Posted by Piotr 2018-04-13 18:15:07

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