Fireball from NNSF thursday night

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Fireball from NNSF thursday night

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Here is a shot of the fireball thursday night @ 11:34 pm, it was going thru corona borealis

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Very cool.
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Great shot, Steve! As usual, I was looking in my eyepiece and missed it, but I saw the entire field get bright and then heard everyone yell "WOW!"
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Nice! I figured you captured it.
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I missed most of it, as I was in Ken's trailer... lucky for me, the camera was paying attention!
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