Meteor Fireball explodes over Broadwater County
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Jeff Ross
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Meteor Fireball explodes over Broadwater County Jeff Ross On November 20, 2022, at 4:11 am my automated aurora cameras caught an amazing and relatively rare event. A meteor, probably from the recent Leonids meteor shower, exploded over Broadwater County.
After watching the full video from that night's run (mt43news.com/001) I quickly realized I'd captured something far more. I extracted the best image and a short clip of the video and uploaded them both to the American Meteor Society's web page for reporting fireballs.
Monday morning I got an email from a postdoc graduate student asking if I'd send him the "rawest" images I had of the event. As I was preparing an even 10 unprocessed images to send I discovered that I had captured an unbelievable series of images.
Words will not describe this fireball. I made a short 12-second video and posted it on my Starhouse Observatory web page.
You can view the video of the fireball at
https://mt43news.com/005
If you happened to see this fireball in real time please send an email to jross@openvistas.net and let me know!
Enjoy!
