Starship Asterisk*

I also made a beautiful photo:
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[quote="orin stepanek" post_id=333823 time=1694876299 user_id=100812]
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Wonderful; first I've heard of an Artic Henge! 8-)
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Yeah, it looks pretty cool. I remembered the [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230327.html]APOD from march[/url] that the text linked to.

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Wonderful; first I've heard of an Artic Henge! 8-)

[quote=johnnydeep post_id=333821 time=1694870029 user_id=132061]
Very cool. I was confused about why the mouse-over image showing the fireball had a much brighter blue sky, but the linked-to video revealed that it was the fireball itself that lit everything up!
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I was confused as to why the ground did seem to be lit up by the fireball. I guess it wasn't bright enough for that.

It was nothing like the Chelyabinsk meteor, in other words!


[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBLjB5qavxY[/youtube]


Ann

Very cool. I was confused about why the mouse-over image showing the fireball had a much brighter blue sky, but the linked-to video revealed that it was the fireball itself that lit everything up!

[url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230916.html] [img]https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_230916.jpg[/img] [size=150]Fireball over Iceland[/size][/url]

[b] Explanation: [/b] On September 12, from a location just south of the Arctic Circle, stones of Iceland's [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230327.html]modern Arctic Henge[/url] point skyward in this startling scene. Entertaining an intrepid group of aurora hunters during a [url=https://spaceweather.com/]geomagnetic storm[/url], alluring northern lights dance across the darkened sky when a stunning [url=https://www.amsmeteors.org/fireballs/faqf/]fireball meteor[/url] explodes. Awestruck, the camera-equipped skygazers [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHHitRCagcE]captured video and still images[/url] of the boreal bolide, at its peak about as bright as a full moon. Though quickly fading from view, the fireball left a lingering [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2309/_DSC7281-1s_1024.jpg]visible trail[/url] or persistent train. [url=https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180817.html]The wraith-like trail[/url] was seen for minutes wafting in the upper atmosphere at altitudes of 60 to 90 kilometers along with the [url=https://www.nasa.gov/aurora]auroral glow[/url].


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