The photographer managed to capture a meteor explosion in the sky

Nick Jackson from the UK was virtually impossible: he documented in photos and video the exact moment when the meteor exploded, and then collapsed in the sky.

Photos and video were taken during the meteor shower of orionid October 20. Nick Jackson took pictures of clun castle in Shropshire. In the middle of the shooting he saw a giant meteor behind the castle. According to him, it was very unusual to see a meteor of this size. As the photographer was taking pictures of the star tracks, it is not immediately verify the footage. Only when he returned home, he realized that he managed to capture.

"Pure luck, because when it happened, I did did a series of shots," said Jackson. "It is a question of fact to be at the right time in the right place".

The video consists of 30 photographs taken by Jackson on which the meteor first flies and then explodes. According to him, after the publication of the shots on Facebook, he wrote about his unbelievable luck, because something like this happens once in a lifetime.

"The reason why we, the photographers go out in the middle of the night and stand there in the cold that we are obsessed with the beauty of the night sky, his peace. And when you finally see something like this, it makes a huge impression."

Translated by «Yandex.Translator»