Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Serpens (Ser)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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Meteor - Parco Dell'Antola, August 25 2022,  Italy, Nicla.Camerin_Maurizio.Camerin
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Meteor - Parco Dell'Antola, August 25 2022, Italy

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Meteor - Parco Dell'Antola, August 25 2022,  Italy, Nicla.Camerin_Maurizio.Camerin
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Meteor - Parco Dell'Antola, August 25 2022, Italy

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*Final Image Rev. H and I are a fullframe format,  while Rev. V is downsize 80&.  The image is a single frame 6 sec. exposure at ISO 3200, toked with a 35mm lens at f1.8 with  Canon R. and to those images were apply only some noise reduction and clarity in Cam Raw.
* GIF files are composed by six frames, one before meteorite and four after as it is present the dust left  behind. The  frames of the GIF were worked applying a slight gradient and noise reduction, dehaze and clarity in Cam Raw.
* Frames are part of a Time Lapse that was running with 6 sec exposure and 3 sec of delay in between frames.
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NEWS
The Image of the Fireball was published February 24, 2023 by the International Meteor Organization in this article https://www.imo.net/meteor-activity-outlook-for-25-february-3-march-2023/ and by the American Meteor Society https://www.amsmeteors.org/2023/02/meteor-activity-outlook-for-february-25-march-3-2023/ See Revision W and X

A brief introduction about these images
Maurizio went out on his short 'holidays' checking a place that look as a good spot on the map for do astrophotography sessions.
It turns out that a journey that had to take a maximum of two hours by car became four due to a landslide in the road that leads to the site almost halfway through and was not reported on google maps and had to back off and take a whole long ride to get there where the hotel-home was booked.
On the fourth and fifth day of staying in that place, the 'visual events' occurred, and he recounts below.

Visual event on the night of August 25, 2022.
While I was shooting with the telescope the Lagoon Nebula, there were two other people that meet me in the place and I  was explaining to them what I was doing, and at the same time I had set the other camera to do a Time Lapse with 6 sec exposure and 3sec pauses with the Canon EOS R and 35mm lens f: 1.8 and ISO 3200 on a tripod pointing to the top of the sky at about 70 ° towards to our Milky Way, but off-center to capture its passage during the night.
At 10:07 pm local time the sky and everything around us lit up and became clear almost like a day for just over two seconds.
I thought of a big flash thunder while I was watching the light at that moment but then and luckily I looked up and I saw again the luminous trail that from the shimmering white passed to the yellow-orange and finally red as it dissolved like the remains of a firework.
Even the girl next to me saw the glare but little of the luminous trail, instead the lady who was disposed with her face in the trajectory that caused the blister had a more immediate reflection in looking up and seeing the fireball and then the trail that it did, she said that from green and then to the strong glow it passed to yellow and then orange.
It was a shocking experience for all three of us because of the amount of light emitted. The two of them had never seen one, but I had seen several over the years, of spectacular colors and also accompanied by explosions.
This one, on the other hand, did not make any visual explosion nor did we hear any bang, what instead we seemed to hear all three was like a short whisper sound.
Beside the surprise I got a bit upset because like ten minutes before I moved the camera from the area where  I thought the fireball seemed to have appeared, but the lady insisted that the path of the meteorite made was another.
I was very convinced that I hadn't taken it with the camera, but I said to myself that it would surely lighten the sky on the frame that was taking at that moment.
The day after in the night at home, I started looking for that photo, and my surprise was sensational: I had caught in full and completely inside the frame the event of the meteorite I saw that evening!
Looking at that image and seeing how much light it made was astonishing again.
This event was reported by more than 93 people on this site including mine.  https://prisma.imo.net/members/imo_view/event/2022/5374
https://prisma.imo.net/members/imo_view/report/280446
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Visual event morning of August 26, 2022.
This meteorite that I saw alone surprised me a lot because its movement was very slow, so much so that its strong light was the one that made me look towards it as I was disassembled the telescope, and I still had time to see how it moved and its shape, all with a total duration of about 5 seconds until it went behind some trees that concealed the end of its path from me. Its trail was in fact very short and therefore its teardrop shape was very visible, probably also because the observation was at the time of the beginning of dawn and therefore with a slightly cleared sky. Event reported https://prisma.imo.net/members/imo_view/report/280136

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Final Note:
Maybe the most impressive of this 'lucky image'  is the fact that the Meteorite appear like the last 3 sec of the 6 sec sequence lapse running as the head of the meteorite can be see clearly in the frame freeze before the meteorite run its final burning stage disintegration.  Also this timing situation (because the 3 sec pause) given the possibility to take the dust left behind after the burning phase clearly in the follow frames.

Asteroid path:
Viewing the meteorite sequence frames we realize there is what to seems an Asteroid path.  Beside the good will trying to understand how to try identify an asteroid in the diverse web sites I searched, is asked the coordinates position, my lack of knowledge for to pull this information from this frames is something beyond to me at the moment.  If any want to give me hand on this I will appreciate.  You can see clearly the path in the GIF G in close up.

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Description: 08-25-2022 Fireball head detail, single frame 6sec ISO 3200

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Description: GIF Meteorite 08-25-2022. Fullframe, 6 frames, 1 before fireball 4 after, 6 total frames.
Time lapse frames 6 sec, interval 3 sec, ISO 3200.

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Description: GIF Meteorite 08-25-2022 Fullframe-Notes. 6 frames, 1 before fireball 4 after, 6 total frames.
Time lapse frames 6 sec, interval 3 sec, ISO 3200.
In the sequence frames we noted two satellites, one airplane and what seems an Asteroid path. Yellow arrow indicate the direction of the objects.

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Description: GIF Full resolution Meteorite and Asteroid close up frame cropped.
6 frames, 1 before fireball 4 after, 6 total frames
Time lapse frame 6 sec, interval 3 sec, ISO 3200.

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Description: This is the following frame were can be appreciate the dust left by the fireball. Fullframe, 6 sec exposure, ISO 3200. 35mm lens at f:1.8 Canon R on tripod.
At this frame was apply only noise reduction (Exterminator) and clarity in Cam Raw.

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Description: Meteorite 2022-08-25 - Notes. In this frame are noted the position (red arrows) and address direction (yellow arrows) of the two satellites, one plane, what seems an Asteroid path and meteorite. This in the arc of less than a minute...

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Description: Mount and scope preparation.

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Description: Sunset

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Description: Moon and Venus, sunset

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Description: Sunset panoramic.

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Description: Butterfly.

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Description: Butterfly 2

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Description: Park map.

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Description: Observatory Announce

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Description: In background a private observatory.

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Description: Panoramic view of the private observatory and around.

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Description: The International Meteor Organization (IMO)

Meteor Activity Outlook for 25 February – 3 March 2023
https://www.imo.net/meteor-activity-outlook-for-25-february-3-march-2023/

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Description: The American Meteor Society, Ltd

Meteor Activity Outlook for February 25 – March 3, 2023
https://www.amsmeteors.org/2023/02/meteor-activity-outlook-for-february-25-march-3-2023/

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Meteor - Parco Dell'Antola, August 25 2022,  Italy, Nicla.Camerin_Maurizio.Camerin