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Eclipse & Meteor

At approximately 4:38AM, 3 minutes before the end of totality, this colorful meteor passed very close to the moon. I estimated it to be about 1st magnitude in brightness and ~3 degrees long.

 

A very lucky capture. RAW image was post processed in Photoshop to enhance details of the moon and brightened the meteor.

 

Used a Nikon 180mm f/2.8 @ f/5.6, iso 160, exp 5 s on the Fujifilm X-T3 camera. An Orion Sirius Equatorial clock drive set to lunar rate was used.

 

Picture of the Day x 2

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Uploaded on November 9, 2022
Taken on November 8, 2022