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                               2019 October 10
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                        Mid-Air Meteor and Milky Way
                 Image Credit & [3]Copyright: [4]Eric Wagner

   Explanation: On September 24, a late evening commercial flight from
   Singapore to Australia offered stratospheric views of the southern
   hemisphere's night sky, if you [5]chose a window seat. In fact, a
   well-planned seating choice with a window facing toward the Milky Way
   allowed the set up of a sensitive digital camera on a tripod mount to
   record the [6]galaxy's central bulge in a series of 10 second long
   exposures. By chance, one of [7]the exposures caught this [8]bright
   fireball meteor in the starry frame. Reflected along the wing of the
   A380 aircraft, the brilliant greenish streak is also internally
   reflected in the double layer window, producing a fainter parallel to
   the original meteor track. In the southern sky Jupiter is the bright
   source beneath the galactic bulge and seen next to a green beacon, just
   [9]off the wing tip.

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