[meteorite-list] Bolide? Doggone?

From: Darryl Pitt <darryl_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 15:35:20 -0400
Message-ID: <678929AF-A7A5-42C2-8682-C38766F33775_at_dof3.com>

Hi Richard,

I appreciate your thoughts and your analysis could very well be spot
on---but low resolution and soft focus at infinity are not distortions
of the sort to which you allude, and I think I'll hold fast to the
notion of a "bolide by camera-phone" being able to evoke a sun dog.

I suppose in the end I just have a bit more faith in the report of a
ball "speeding across the sky".....

....and of course I agree that embellished eyewitness accounts can be
problematic (along with my misplaced faith)

  ;-) Oh well.


And all best / Darryl




On Sep 1, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Richard Kowalski wrote:

>
> --
> Richard Kowalski
> http://fullmoonphotography.net
> IMCA #1081
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>
> --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com>
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bolide? Doggone?
>> To: "Richard Kowalski" <damoclid at yahoo.com>
>> Cc: "Meteorite List" <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 11:09 AM
>>
>> Hiya,
>>
>> If the description of the object's transit through the sky
>> is
>> accurate, I would have to disagree.
>
> I would too, but it's an embellishment to make his story interesting.
>
>> (As the resolution of the camera is weak, and focus
>> limited, a bolide
>> could readily blur into a sun dog-like appearance.)
>> /d
>>
>
> Nope, if that were true the entire image would show the distortions.
> If you look at the images on the wiki page, or google sun dogs and
> click on images you'll see many examples that look exactly like this
> one.
> It is an *extremely* common phenomena...
>
> Almost no one looks up any longer, so even the most common phenomena
> are unknown to just about everyone. I highly recommend _The Nature
> of Light and Colour in the Open Air_
>
> http://tinyurl.com/no2ej9
>
> It's a great book. I've witnessed nearly everything contained within
> its pages.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
Received on Tue 01 Sep 2009 03:35:20 PM PDT