Meteor
Out tonight photographing the global rainbow display @ Whitly bay & saw this bright light hurtling across the sky & quickly turned the camera to capture it as it flew overhead.
The little line at the bottom of shot is the top of the "spanish
city" building at Whitly bay.
ISO 640 & 30 sec wasn't the best settings but I just turned &
took the shot before it flew past completely!!!!
With the naked eye I could see it white hot with an orange tail &
really low in the sky. I thought it was a massive firework rocket
until Iain & Mel that were with me said it was a meteor!!!
Exif data
Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure 30 sec
Aperture f6.3
Focal Length 17 mm
ISO Speed 640
ICH-Photos
Mike Ridley.
Comments and faves
andrewcoswayphotography (15 months ago | reply)
Just been reading that there are a lot of fireballs in the sky tonight check out meteor watch UK
Col-B (15 months ago | reply)
Excellent Mick, a great capture mate.
Allan England (15 months ago | reply)
Well done Mick! Yeah this is what I saw fly over my house! Very cool sir!
MM © (15 months ago | reply)
I wonder if it was the same 1 me and montoff saw while sitting having a bag of chips, I'm glad others have seen it, gutted I wasn't shooting, well done catching this, it was canny mad. we where at the fish quay and watched it cross above hour heads at what seemed quite low, with a long burning tale, we watched it head over into south tyneside until it vanished
BDMbeercan (15 months ago | reply)
I saw this while walking the dog, it was in 3 parts I was sure It was a UFo lol! Glad others saw this too, nice shor Mick.
Pikebubbles (15 months ago | reply)
And that was 30 seconds? I have never seen anything quite like it - Meteors are always so fast? Well done capturing it Mike!
Steve Clasper (15 months ago | reply)
Just heard about this on the news. Nicely captured.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np8U68KiDoQ&featu re=youtu.be
Mike Ridley. (15 months ago | reply)
Thanks guys, what a blast to see!! I thought it was a giant firework rocket in the distance until it started going overhead with a massive orange trail behind it.. Cheers go to Iain & Mel that were with me & pointed out what it was before it was too late to shoot as it was going at one hell of a rate!!!!! LOL ;-)
Not the best capture of it but the best I could do with3 seconds notice!!! LOL ;-D
Lorraine Wight Photography (15 months ago | reply)
What a great capture! You can see the bright dot at the front of it!
Phil 'the link' Whittaker (gizto29) (15 months ago | reply)
Thats sweet Mick, when me, Dru and Michael were there we seen sumic strange aswell. It was out to sea, something red pulsing but unlike a plane/copter the previous red pulse didnt vanish so there ended up about 5 red dots before they all vanished.....
Robin.Smith (15 months ago | reply)
Stunning, well captured under pressure and knowing you had 1 shot at it :)
Ed Bookless (15 months ago | reply)
Awesome - I was Dave and Ivor and saw this fly over our heads - thought it was a firework at fast!
Nicely captured!
colesfromnewcastle (15 months ago | reply)
Better and better!
-- Q -- (15 months ago | reply)
Cracking... I was in the middle of a long exposure as it passed over, so missed it... very impressive.
Colin Cameron ~ Photography ~ (15 months ago | reply)
Wow, excellent shot!
Rosemarie.s.w (15 months ago | reply)
Great image of the meteor ,I wasn't out and haven't heard if t was seen in Somerset as yet !
Just thought I would let you know in case you didn't Did you give permission to have your image here www.universetoday.com/93964/massive-fireball- witnessed-ov...
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Seen on t.co ( ?² )
Runmore (15 months ago | reply)
That is impressive...
ICH-Photos (15 months ago | reply)
Brilliant capture Mike, was amazing to see this. As you say, at first it looked like a fire work but I quickly realized the speed was all wrong and so I guessed it was a meteorite or some space junk returning. Well done on having the quick reactions to turn and fire a shot off while we just stood there and watched it!
It was a real pleasure to finally meet you in person mate, hope to catch up with you again soon.
Jackson & Co Photography (15 months ago | reply)
Well done Mick it's a great image and perfect opportunist capture. I've read all about it all the papers this morning but no one has an image of it. Get it off to Sky, BBC and all the papers ASAP mate they'll print this in a heartbeat.
~~Anita~~ (15 months ago | reply)
This is brilliant Mick - what a catch! - glad you decided to head out again and were on the spot and quick to get that shot - hope to see this in the press ^^ :-))
Éothain (15 months ago | reply)
Cool!
Snowbirdkong (15 months ago | reply)
very nice
Dave Brightwell (15 months ago | reply)
It was amazing to see, none of us could believe what we had seen, it was so low and flew straight over the top of us. You did well to get this mate, I just stood there awestruck!!
SuziGuy (14 months ago | reply)
Awesome rainbow light and great shot of the meteor
CAMRABAG2423 (14 months ago | reply)
A once in a life time shot, I just hope it get's out to picture editors.
Fantastic capture.
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