Bolide Over The Okie-Tex Star Party

Spectacular meteor over the star party on Tuesday morning!

David Wang captured the same meteor using a fisheye lens. See the Okie-Tex photo page for that image.

 

Photograph Information
Date	09.30.2008, 02:19 CDT
Location	Kenton, OK
Camera	Canon 20D, Tokina 12-24 lens set for 12mm @f4.
Exposure	Single 30 second exposure at ISO 1600
Notes	50°F, 75%RH, Excellent transparency Initial RAW conversion, slight asinh stretch in IRIS. Calibrated with bias, dark and flat frames. Noise reduction in PixInsight LE 1.02 Additional adjustments in Photoshop CS2

Sunday evening view of the observing field from the hillside camera location. The tripod is leveled and weighted down. The photograph represents a similar field of view seen by the camera when mounted in the box. Click image for larger view.