Pictures of [... fireball ...]

Photographer	Lukasz Kuczkowski {K:14684}
Project	#43 Unusual Vision	Camera Model	Praktica
Categories	Others	Film Format
Portfolio	Unusual Vision	Lens	no idea
Uploaded	12/12/2004	Film / Memory Type	no idea
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Views	422	Shutter
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Critiques	21	Rating	6.00 / 6 Ratings
Location	City - State - Country - Poland
About	This shot was taken during the astronomy camp which took place in the Polish mountains (called Tatry) years ago. Every night we observed our lovely sky and took some measurements. That time I was fascinated by the variable stars and I measured their brightness. Anyway, it was summer (August actually) and the sky was full of meteoroids coming from Perseus constellation. Suddenly, first we saw extraordinary glow and then harsh sound. It was a gigantic fireball. Everything lasted couple of seconds and then the fireball exploded causing very intense trace on the sky. I was shocked but fortunately conscious enough to grab my camera, adjust it and take some pictures of this trace ? it was disappearing very quickly. Beneath you can find the result of my try. Because the picture and the negative is quite old I added some blue color to make the sky look like the sky. I hope you like it. Best regards Lukasz P.S. There are some small scratches on the picture - please forgive me cause it would take eons to remove them all without removing stars :-)

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Judi Liosatos {K:34029} 12/12/2004

Great capture. You were quick off the mark.

Judi

waldemar ebner filho {K:6403} 12/12/2004

Lukasz,
Fantastic my friend, very good lucky, comgratulations.It?s remember Star Trek. Hug

Khaled Mursi Hammoud {K:52411} 12/12/2004

Great catch Luckasz,
You were very lucky to have your camera with you.
Excellent work,
Khaled.

Piotr Niewierowicz {K:2401} 12/12/2004

It reminds me my own dimensions ;)
Best regards

Gregory McLemore {K:25295} 12/12/2004

Outstanding stellar capture, very masterfully done.

Bob Botts {K:414} 12/12/2004

Excellent capture, Lukasz. Images like that are very rare... congrats.

Jan Symank

{K:15755} 12/13/2004

Great moment !
I like it a lot !!
Regards
Jan

Ian McIntosh {K:38813} 12/13/2004

Unbelievable!
meteors zooming around behind as well!

Dorothy Di Liddo {K:13766} 12/13/2004

Very cool, I love star gazing (in August especially, lots of shooting stars.) Dottie

emily savva {K:21113} 12/13/2004

wow... absolutely breathtaking... the night sky away from big cities can offer so much... good you managed to capture it on time and the blue added works really well... regards... emy

Thilo Bayer {K:50301} 12/13/2004

hi lukasz,

different one ;-)

textures look great.

thilo

Tony Diana {K:13396} 12/13/2004

Felicidades por la paciencia :)

Lori Stitt {K:74437} 12/14/2004

Hi Lukasz,

Thanks for your explanation of this image,
this is really an amazing photograph, you've captured the 'sky action' so well.

NIce job,
Lori ;)

Antonia BauerleinSehnert

{K:30027} 12/14/2004

Quite an amazing thing to see and how fantastic that you got this shot! Thank you for sharing it, as it is quite and interesting treat. T.

Adolfo Fabbri {K:17634} 12/14/2004

What lovely sky! This is a great photo!
Adolfo

Heath Bennett {K:4429} 12/15/2004

Fantastic Lukasz. Well thought through!!! I would stille be staring up at the sky while you were grabbing the camera!

cessy karina {K:14205} 12/16/2004

WHOOWWWW !!!!! excellent shot, Lukazs. I tried to take photo of the perseid meteors also, last september, it was excellent to see with the eyes (although I didn't have the gigantic fireball), but maybe because I captured in digital camera, the result is not as fabulous as this. very well done

Zeev Scharf

{K:24824} 12/16/2004

Excellent shot Lukasz,fantastic capture
Congrat my friend
Many thanks for commenting 'Waiting to snatch'
BEST REGARDS

T L {K:18928} 1/17/2005

watching the big sky.... .-)

Rafael Le Masson {K:1593} 4/28/2005

Impressionante! Lindo registro do céu.

[]s
Rafa

Emmanuel Panagiotakis {K:7559} 7/18/2005

Outstanding,Excellent,magnificent shot
fine details
well-done

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