[meteorite-list] Astro Mikes meteor streak Photo

From: dean bessey <deanbessey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:59:40 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <115955.42429.qm_at_web56106.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

I hate to be a party pooper when everybody is all excited about having a photo of a meteor fall but astro mikes photo shown on his webpage here:
http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/
Is not exactly all that it is cracked up to be.
Reporters are renouned for not properly checking their info in an effort to get a scoupe but somebody deserves a raspberry over this one and at least somebody should have seen this photo for what it is before newspapers started printing it.
The greenish streak is a starboard (right) wingtip nav light, the centre red is the rotating anti-collision beacon, and the red streak is the port (left) wingtip nav light. The two brighter white centre lights are the landing lights or maybe white tracking lights depending on what type of aircraft it is. It would have been flying up the photo to the left of the observer. There was a slight wind making the pilot crab into the wind which explains the non perfect parellel lines.
The photo has quite a bit of dust and mike needs his CCD chip cleaned.
Basically, While he was inside waiting the the long exposure photo to finish an aircraft flew through his image.
Cheers
DEAN


      
Received on Sat 11 Jul 2009 06:59:40 PM PDT