Melbourne & Geelong Wedding & Portrait Photographer Robb Duncan

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Meteor over Melbourne

So, I have been too busy for the past 2 weeks to post anything…

Then last night I finished up another client meeting and as I was driving home… I saw this…

Meteor over Melbourne's West - Copyright Robb Duncan

What is it..??

I decided to pull over and take a closer look.

Of course I had a camera with me (I always do), but I only had a 135mm lens, great for brides, not the best for photographing strange phenomenon in the sky. But upon closer inspection I could clearly make it out…

Close-up of the Meteor over Melbourne's West - Copyright Robb Duncan

This is a close-up cropped view from first image

It was a meteor, how cool is that?!!

I clicked off a dozen frames, then switched to HD video, which sounds cool, but in reality the meteor was so far away, that in 25seconds of footage, it hardly appears to move at all.

As it got closer to the horizon, and I suspect a lot lower in the atmosphere, a dust trail started to develop. As you can see from the next 2 images, this was backlit by the sun which had already set.

The dust trail

Close-up crop showing the dust trail in better detail

And there you have it, just another reason why I always carry a camera!

And for the Camera/foto geeks: -

Images captured by Canon 5DII & 135mm/2.0L
- ISO 800 – f/2.0 – 1/2500th sec
- ISO 800 – f/5.0 – 1/125th sec

64/200

by Robb Duncan

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Petra - Simply Beautiful.

Lauren - Very cool :) so sad I missed it!

Dan & Sara - Holy sh.t thats amazing!

Hail - WOW!!!

gabe aceves - nice captures robb!

Joseph Yarrow - One word: Thatisawesome.

Lara Eichhorn - Neat. I like that third shot even without the meteor. I always find myself with just a cell phone camera for stuff like this.

Tabitha McCausland - That is super cool!

matt s. - Seriously?!?! That’s how you catch a shooting star people.

Az - I think you’ve got some hot pixels on your camera :-)

William Massey - Great job. This really shows your dedication and love of the craft.

seth goodman - That’s amazing! What luck!

Kelly Ry - How awesome!

jjmccann - did anyone in Melbourne see a bright red orange burning light last night about 9pm june 24th lasting for about 30 seconds that appeared to travel from north west changing direction due south to fade out ?
At first i thought it was a helicopter with unusual lighting but it made no sound as it appeared to move closer.