Bolide
Taken by Tomas Slovinsky on April 21, 2020 @
Zbojska, Slovakia
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Camera Used: Unavailable Unavailable
Exposure Time: 25/1
Aperture: f/2.2
ISO: 8000
Date Taken: 2020:04:30 15:20:00
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Details:
I thought about the image with a great explanation of parallax for a longer time. During the Lyrids meteor shower, there appeared a few meteors among the sky, but one of them was much brighter and longer than the others. At the 23:45 UTC, the bright bolide had lit up the night sky for almost 9 seconds. Fortunately, me and two photographers from Slovakia captured them on cameras. I came with an initiative to stack them together physical correctly and make the parallax picture. I made the 360-degrees panoramic photography from a place I captured this bolide at the night from 21st to 22nd of April 2020 from Muran Plateau-Zbojska, Slovakia. Three bolides come from Zilina (shortest one), Zbojska, and Kosice (longer one) - all with different paths and lengths on the sky. The truly interesting fact was discovered after calculation of the highs and paths of this piece of matter. While ordinary meteors burn out in altitude 60-90km above the ground, this one started to burn at the 121km above the ground. Due to its high speed (27km/s) it started to burn in a higher altitude than it ordinary does.
Credits:
Tomas Slovinsky - Panoramic photography and processing, bolide from Zbojska
Robert Barsa - Bolide from Kosice, calculations and 3D visualization in Google Earth
Pavol Kostolny - Bolide from Zilina
Google Earth (map used)
Photographer's website:
https://http://slovinsky.art/en/2020/04/30/parallax/
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