On the night of Saturday to Sunday, photographer Eric Castaings took this magnificent meteor photo while he was on the side of Tourmalet, in the Pyrenees. – Eric Castaings photographs
He was there for the Milky Way, he was treated to a much rarer show. In the night from Saturday to Sunday, Eric Castaings was on the side of the mythical pass of
Tourmalet with two friends for a night hike on the trail of beautiful images of the starry sky.
Armed with his objectives, this resident of Hautes-Pyrenees was doing a long exposure to capture the beauty of the sea of clouds floating above the massif and the colors of the sky when a meteor passed. And not just any, it’s a racing car, whose light trail is more visible than that of shooting stars.
“A real stroke of luck”
A rarer phenomenon too. “It is a stroke of luck that we have that once or twice in his life, the device could have been oriented differently. I had seen one seven or eight years ago when I was in the car. There, I was told that we had seen him as far as the Var, “notes the professional photographer who has made the massif his playground.
Initially, he thought it was a meteorite, but he discovered that in astronomy, this meteor, whose brightness exceeds that of the full moon, was decked out with the name of fireball. Meteorites are the pieces that end up on earth and did not disintegrate when they entered the atmosphere.
With his friends, he continued to capture what the starry sky offered him until the early hours of the morning. On closer inspection, he regrets that the stars are not all clear. We see only fire.
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