meteor
Taken by Marek Nikodem on October 31, 2015 @
near Szubin, Poland
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Glowing trails of hot, ionized atmospheric gases left behind by flaring Taurid Fireball. Six images of the after-effects of the extremely bright (-13 mag) Taurid Fireball toward the constellation Ursa Major, Draco and Ursa Minor. Shortly after a brilliant fireball streaked across the sky, the meteor's train lasted more than 50 minutes.The train was visible with the naked eye for 20 minutes and more than 50 minutes on camera. The first image was taken about at 18.23 UT, 18 minutes after the fireball appeared. The second image was made about 22 minutes after the fireball appeared, and the last image was made 48 minutes after the meteor first showed up. This is all that remains of the ionized
trail left by a -13 magnitude fireball several minutes earlier. Wind in the upper atmosphere distorted the trail.
It also appears that the wind velocities changed considerably with altitude, since the motion of the
wind blown trail changes length and direction as the meteor got closer to the Earth.
The North Star, Polaris and Little Dipper is in center of the pictures. Exposure 25-30 sec, iso 1600, lens 24 mm FF
Photographer's website:
http://www.ppsae.pl
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