[meteorite-list] Astro Mikes meteor streak Photo

From: Mr EMan <mstreman53_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:24:34 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <46745.94825.qm_at_web55206.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

Well one thing for certain this NOT the same perspective which was first posted. Live an learn.

Elton

--- On Sat, 7/11/09, dean bessey <deanbessey at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: dean bessey <deanbessey at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Astro Mikes meteor streak Photo
> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com, deanbessey at yahoo.com
> Date: Saturday, July 11, 2009, 6:59 PM
>
> 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
>
>
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Received on Sat 11 Jul 2009 08:24:34 PM PDT