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Meteor over Harvard Square

By adamg on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 12:10pm

Harvard Square meteor

Brad Kelly was in the right place at the right time last night.

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By anon on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 12:40pm.

Or a passing vehicle reflected on his front filter during a long exposure?

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By adamg on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 12:46pm.

Reports from Worcester to Hanover.

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By Lanny Budd on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 2:20pm.

Whoever is handling the Green Lantern marketing account is doing a bang-up job.

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By anon on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 3:50pm.

Nope. I saw the same thing from Wales, MA at approx. the same time. I came home and tried to descibe it to my family but was thrilled that someone actually caught it. That pic was exactly what I saw. Much bigger and brighter than any shooting star I had ever seen.

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By Chris Dowd on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 1:15pm.

. . . I have been lucky enough to see a few shooting stars, just need have to have your eyes at the right place at the right time. No wonder people ascribe significance and meaning in seeing them.

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By Lecil on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 3:06pm.

Thanks for sharing! Meteors are a truly awesome sight!

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By anon on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 5:03pm.

Brad Kelly apparently hasn't heard of the ability to download photos onto his computer, and thus needs to aim a webcam at his camera's screen?

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By BlackKat on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 5:44pm.

I think it was so you could see the file information including the date and time stamp. To correlate the photo with other meteor sightings.

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By escapedfromeastie on Sun, 01/30/2011 - 8:30pm.

I guess I'm the only one who immediately checks EXIF data on photos.

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By anon on Fri, 02/04/2011 - 7:16pm.

Well if he's a photographer he might want to protect his rights to the photo.

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By Brad Kelly on Tue, 02/01/2011 - 7:42pm.

Hi, my name is Brad Kelly and I'm the photographer who shot the Harvard Square Meteor photo on January 29th. I thought I'd address a "discrepancy" issue regarding the time stamp on my photograph that has come up in some online forums. It's a good question.

The image stamp on the photo reads: 20:34:12 indicating a time of 8:34:12sec PM EST that the photo was taken. Most online meteor sighting reports in the area indicated a time closer to 8:30pm as the time of the widespread meteor sightings in the Massachusetts and surrounding New England areas on January 29th, 2011.

I checked my camera's clock, today, against the The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) clock online and found that my camera is set 3 minutes and 25 sec FAST relative to the official NIST time.

Since it was an eight second exposure and since the Nikon D300 seems to time-stamp at the beginning of the exposure (I just ran a test on my camera to check that) it means that the meteor was visible over Harvard Square in Cambridge sometime precisely between 8:30:47sec PM EST and 8:30:55pm when I snapped the eight second exposure.

(For what it's worth, the Cambridge Savings Bank digital clock, clearly visible in the original hi-res photo, reads 8:29. So it is presumably at least 47 sec slow in relation to official NIST time.)

Thanks for your interest in my cosmically lucky meteor shot!

Now I'm off to read the manual and figure out this gosh darn USB cable thingy...

Cheers,
Brad

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