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Fireball

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Having had my new Nikon Coolpix 4800 for a grand total of 2.5 days (give or take...), I happened to have it aimed at the (sort of) wrong place, at the right time. Attempting to get a shot of the Andromeda constellation, and ultimately, the Andromeda Galaxy, my camera was poised in the direction of Cassiopeia and Perseus at just the right two seconds in time that this bright fireball streaked through, at approximately 10:05pm EST, heading in a SW to N direction.

I stood looking up, and happened to be looking right at the fireball when it streaked across the sky, and thought to myself, “Holy crap… I wonder if my camera got that!” I glanced over, just as the LCD screen quickly flashed a preview of the image, and on the bottom right hand corner, I saw the bright, blue-green flash, and knew that I had gotten it, though I wasn’t sure if I got the whole thing, or only part of it. When I viewed the whole image on the camera, turns out, I got the whole thing.

The location of the image was in Boone County, WV.
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