2021 ~ Comet & Fireball ~ Cory Poole Photography

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    I'm still trying to pick out pictures for the 2023 Calendars that I will start selling in a couple of weeks. I really want to include this picture from last December that features both a comet (fainter, bluer, top right) and a bright fireball meteor. But the aspect ratio is completely off since I shot it in portrait mode. This is the reason it didn't get included in a reissue of one of Neil deGrasse Tyson books even though I was contacted by the co-author. So I have a question. Would people be offended if I used photoshop to make it fit in the proper aspect ratio while still looking correct? I don't want people to think I'm "faking" all my pictures. But....this one just can't fit in the calendar the way it is. Thanks for letting me know.

    Here's a blurb the blurb that I shared when it was used as NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. (APOD)

    It's an APOD! The photo was selected as NASA's astronomy picture of the day for December 20th 2021! I guess I have to say I'm an award winning photographer now. 1f60a. Here was the description they used for the photo:

    APOD: The Comet and the Fireball (2021 Dec 20)
    Image Credit & Copyright: Cory Poole
    https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211220.html

    Explanation: This picture was supposed to feature a comet. Specifically, a series of images of the brightest comet of 2021 were being captured: Comet Leonard. But the universe had other plans. Within a fraction of a second, a meteor so bright it could be called a fireball streaked through just below the comet. And the meteor's flash was even more green than the comet's coma. The cause of the meteor's green was likely magnesium evaporating from the meteor's pebble-sized core, while the cause of the comet's green was likely diatomic carbon recently ejected from the comet's city-sized nucleus. The images were taken 10 days ago over the Sacramento River and Mt. Lassen in California, USA. The fireball was on the leading edge of this year's Geminid Meteor Shower -- which peaked a few days later. Comet Leonard is now fading after reaching naked-eye visibility last week -- but now is moving into southern skies.

    Starship Asterisk* • APOD Discussion Page
    http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=211220
     
    CULCULCAN, Oct 25, 2022
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