[meteorite-list] Astro Mikes meteor streak Photo

From: Rob Wesel <rob_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:25:41 -0700
Message-ID: <1AA98A1B017244CFACD4E29006DBA126_at_windows9bb74fe>

The telescope image is cool and all but I'm diggin' the top one where he's
in company with Einstein, Hawking and Galileo....a new hero emerges.

Rob Wesel
www.nakhladogmeteorites.com
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Luck is what happens
When Preparation meets talent
Mike Hankey, 2009

or

Luck is what happens when a light source crosses
A random point in space while you are coincidentally
Photographing that same random point in space.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Bandli" <fuzzfoot at comcast.net>
To: "'Meteorites USA'" <eric at meteoritesusa.com>; "'dean bessey'"
<deanbessey at yahoo.com>; <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astro Mikes meteor streak Photo


> Another interesting feature that points to fireball is that the light
> streaks are not consistent in intensity - like a flickering object. This
> could be due to over-enhancement, but I don't think so. Every other
> telescope/long exposure image I can find on the web (of aircraft) shows
> them
> like solid bars of light or strobes. Also, it may be my screen, but I
> cannot
> see red or blue lights in Hankey's image.
>
> A good example of a large plane:
>
> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0708/M33airplane_stephan720.jpg
>
> or search Google Images for many more.
>
> Mike Bandli
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of
> Meteorites
> USA
> Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 4:56 PM
> To: dean bessey; meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astro Mikes meteor streak Photo
>
> Hey Dean, List,
>
> OK all... Before we get all excited over this. The photo IS in fact 100%
> a fireball, without a doubt it is a fireball fragmentation. It came from
> Mike Hankey and he has graciously let me post it on my meteorite blog.
>
> There is an explanation of the photo below with links to enhanced
> images. It is not a plane, though I thought it was when I first looked
> at it, after careful examination and looking at the hi-res images it is
> a fireball/bolide event captured in the photo. There are too many
> streaks large and small for this to be a plane unless that plane is lit
> up like a Christmas tree.
>
> In addition you will notice that toward the bottom of the image the
> streak get further apart, just as pieces of the fireball would have done
> during fragmentation...
>
> Look at this hi-res image:
> http://meteoriteblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/meteorjuly62009-watermar
> ked-blog.jpg
>
> And this one here which I enhanced to show the streaks a bit clearer:
> http://meteoriteblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Fireball-Photo-MH-closeu
> p.jpg
>
> And this one:
> http://meteoriteblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Fireball-Photo-Mike-Hank
> ey-.jpg
>
> Read the blog post here:
> http://meteoriteblog.com/fireball-photos-meteor-streaks-through-sky-pa-fireb
> all/
>
> Enjoy...
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
> P.S. Sky & Telescope has asked Hankey to publish the image...
>
>
>
>
> dean bessey wrote:
>> --- On Sat, 7/11/09, Mike Bandli <fuzzfoot at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I have captured numerous aircraft on long exposure and they all have
> strobes and appear as segmented lines. This one certainly does not, though
> it may be so close that it is not showing the break in strobes <snip>
>>
>> I think the explanation for that is probably that usually you photograph
> small slow moving aircraft like a cessna while this is a much larger
> aircraft (Due to all of the light streaks - a small cessna wouldent have
> as
> many lights) and was probably moving faster and further away (Although not
> 30,000 feet as there were landing lights on).
>> Anybody also notice that in the photo the "Meteor" is going up toward
> space rather than falling like you would expect a meteor to do?
>> Cheers
>> DEAN
>>
>>
>>
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>
> --
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> Eric Wichman
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