{"id":2311,"date":"2011-12-13T19:12:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T00:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2011-12-22T08:55:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T13:55:13","slug":"fireball-2011-dec-12th-1804-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/fireball-2011-dec-12th-1804-est\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireball! 2011 Dec 12th, 18:04 EST"},"content":{"rendered":"

We were contacted by local media<\/a> this afternoon about a possible fireball Monday evening. But with no information about time, location, etc it could have been any of a dozen or more events appearing on the allsky camera last night. Most are airplanes and helicopters. Some are car headlight reflections.
\nHowever this turned out to be a true fireball:
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\nThe event is low in the west south west, just over the house.<\/p>\n

We went back to take a look at the captured imagery after an email from Peter Brown of the South Western Meteor Network, stating they had picked up an event at 23:04:42 UT (18:04 EST). We checked and found the event low in the west south west just over top of the house. This was a 90 second exposure ending at 18:05:10 EST.
\nOur long exposures are due to the limited and old equipment we have<\/a>, but we are looking at upgrades to provide a multiframe per second with GPS timing information to boot.<\/p>\n

before – sco-20111212_1803_31.fit.jpg<\/A><\/p>\n

during – sco-20111212_1805_10.fit.jpg<\/A><\/p>\n

after – sco-20111212_1806_49.fit.jpg<\/A>
\nall in 90 second exposures.
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Here are the three images integrated into an animated .GIF<\/A> (561kb)<\/p>\n

Other links:<\/p>\n