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Once in a lifetime shot of a Fireball meteor (i.redd.it)
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[โ€“] SpeakerToLampposts@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is "Serendipitious Green Meteor", taken by Prasenjeet Yadav in October, 2015. The town is Mettupalayam, in southern India. The meteor was captured entirely by accident; he'd set his camera to take 15-second exposures 10 seconds apart over the course of a night, and only afterwards discovered the meteor in one of them. The picture won an honorable mention in National Geographic's 2016 nature photographer of the year contest.
Some more info at: https://petapixel.com/2020/04/28/this-once-in-a-lifetime-meteor-photo-was-captured-by-accident/

[โ€“] Cattail@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Thanks I was trying to find the original image