Loch Ness meteor
Loch Ness meteor, A tour guide in the Scottish Highlands has captured the amazing moment a meteor burned up in the atmosphere in a stunning image.
His long-exposure shot of Loch Ness shows the shooting star streaking across the sky. And the event is so bright that it casts its light across the water.
The photographer was John Alasdair Macdonald, a tour guide in the Scottish Highlands from Drumnadrochit on the west shore of Loch Ness, who runs the website called The Hebridean Explorer.
Mr Macdonald captured the 30-second long image using a Sony RX100 compact camera at about 9pm on Sunday. And he said that it was just ‘sheer dumb luck’ that he managed to get the photo.
Mr Macdonald, 42, wanted to take pictures of the night to advertise the area for his business.
The father-of-three, who lives in Drumnadrochit, near Inverness, said: ‘I’ve never seen a shooting star before, I couldn’t believe it. I quickly checked to see if my camera had picked it up, and it had. My wife called it sheer dumb luck.
‘I wasn’t out looking for it, it was completely unexpected. It was a total fluke.’
Nick Howes, a professional astronomer, told MailOnline that automatic triggering systems can be used to detect the bright motion of a meteor and ‘start the cameras rolling’ if others want to attempt to replicate the photo.
‘This one is, however, very aesthetically pleasing,’ he added.
Also of interest are the colours in the water in the photo, which are likely due to the particular scattering of light.
Eagle-eyed viewers might notice the colours of the Irish flag in the water, very apt considering it is St Patrick’s Day tomorrow.
A meteor like this is unlikely to very large, but the speed at which they enter the atmosphere produces the amazing shooting star.
‘In terms of size, it’s hard to tell with no scale reference, but a fireball this size could typically come from an object about the size of a baseball to basketball,’ said Mr Howes.
Hundreds of meteors enter Earth’s atmosphere every day, but very few - if any - make it to the surface as meteorites.
However, some experts have warned that we need to make more of an effort to track incoming asteroids, as they can cause damage - such as the Chelyabinsk meteor in Russia on 15 February 2013, which seemingly came out of nowhere but injured hundreds when it exploded near the ground.
His long-exposure shot of Loch Ness shows the shooting star streaking across the sky. And the event is so bright that it casts its light across the water.
The photographer was John Alasdair Macdonald, a tour guide in the Scottish Highlands from Drumnadrochit on the west shore of Loch Ness, who runs the website called The Hebridean Explorer.
Mr Macdonald captured the 30-second long image using a Sony RX100 compact camera at about 9pm on Sunday. And he said that it was just ‘sheer dumb luck’ that he managed to get the photo.
Mr Macdonald, 42, wanted to take pictures of the night to advertise the area for his business.
The father-of-three, who lives in Drumnadrochit, near Inverness, said: ‘I’ve never seen a shooting star before, I couldn’t believe it. I quickly checked to see if my camera had picked it up, and it had. My wife called it sheer dumb luck.
‘I wasn’t out looking for it, it was completely unexpected. It was a total fluke.’
Nick Howes, a professional astronomer, told MailOnline that automatic triggering systems can be used to detect the bright motion of a meteor and ‘start the cameras rolling’ if others want to attempt to replicate the photo.
‘This one is, however, very aesthetically pleasing,’ he added.
Also of interest are the colours in the water in the photo, which are likely due to the particular scattering of light.
Eagle-eyed viewers might notice the colours of the Irish flag in the water, very apt considering it is St Patrick’s Day tomorrow.
A meteor like this is unlikely to very large, but the speed at which they enter the atmosphere produces the amazing shooting star.
‘In terms of size, it’s hard to tell with no scale reference, but a fireball this size could typically come from an object about the size of a baseball to basketball,’ said Mr Howes.
Hundreds of meteors enter Earth’s atmosphere every day, but very few - if any - make it to the surface as meteorites.
However, some experts have warned that we need to make more of an effort to track incoming asteroids, as they can cause damage - such as the Chelyabinsk meteor in Russia on 15 February 2013, which seemingly came out of nowhere but injured hundreds when it exploded near the ground.
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