Mike's Astro Photos

Another fireball meteor fell over Baltimore and PA on June 24th, 2010.

Orioles fans watched it streak across the Baltimore sky line during a night game Thursday. How cool would that have been!? Plus the O’s won.

Here’s a map of the AMS witness reports, some reports from Maryland Weather Blog and the York Water video (yes York Water captured this one too).

June 24th, 2010 - Oriole's Fireball

From an early analysis / quick eye up it looks like the termination point for this fireball is somewhere north west of Harrisburg. I have some new data that I’m working with while leads and information continue to come in. Its looking like meteorites may have landed in the Appalachian mountains which will be very difficult terrain to go meteorite hunting in.

Here are a view news stories. The York Daily Record story has a video of the fireball as it terminates.

http://weblogs.marylandweather.com/2010/06/meteor_during_orioles_game.html

http://www.ydr.com/ci_15379570?source=most_viewed

Will keep you posted.

Here’s a photo of Venus and the New Moon.

Venus and New Moon - June 14th, 2010

The yellow streak in the middle left looks a bit like a squiggly meteor or a UFO, but its actually a firefly.

Firefly

Here’s a closeup of the moon right before it set.

New Moon Setting

Here’s a photo of the Sombrero Galaxy through the WOFLT98.

Sombrero Galaxy - May 5th, 2010

Here’s a crop at full resolution:

Sombrero Galaxy

I’m still getting the hang of this scope, but check out the difference in zoom and quality with the Sombrero picture take with the SCT.

Photo Details
William Optics FLT98
Canon 20Da DSLR
3 frames @ 2 minutes each
ISO800