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"Saturn and Leonid Bolide"


South Park, Colorado November 18, 2001
Fujicolor Professional Press P- 1600
ISO 1600 color negative film
Pentax Spotmatic camera with 17mm lens at f/4 / 2 minute exposure

 

This bright bolide fireball streaked through Taurus sometime after the Zenith Hourly Rate (ZHR) reached a maximum of almost 3000, and lasted from 03:10 A.M. MST to 03:30 A.M. MST on November 18, 2001. The curvature of the photograph is due to the use of a 17mm "fisheye" lens. Although somewhat slow (f/4) the fisheye lens captures a much larger area of the sky, allowing greater chance to "catch" a bright meteor such as this one. This photo is courtesy of Robert L. Webers, copyright, 2001, all rights reserved..

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All images and narratives copyright Willis Greiner, all rights reserved.

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