[meteorite-list] Meteor and Smoke Trail

From: Mike Hankey <mike.hankey_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:03:17 -0400
Message-ID: <f0a794131003231303y43089488o84bd8b2ffa0b57bc_at_mail.gmail.com>

It looks like a plane!

j/k -- very cool Richard. Thanks for sharing.

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:31 PM, Richard Kowalski <damoclid at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Every so often I see interesting things in the images made while surveying for NEOs. For a long time I've either enjoyed them in passing when they come up on the screen or occasionally I'll save out the image to put them up on a page some time in the future. Well "the future" finally arrived.
>
> During my last run at the Catalina Schmidt I had a meteor streak through one field and it left a nice smoke trail. The high level winds blew the trail a little westward before the shutter closed again.
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> I thought the readers of this list might be interested in seeing this image too.
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> When you have a field of view that can fit more than 25 full moons in it, catching a nice meteor and trail, while rare, isn't all that uncommon.
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> The page is located at:
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> http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~kowalski/interesting_events.html
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> As I come across more interesting things while surveying, I'll put them up on this page too.
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>
> --
> Richard Kowalski
> Full Moon Photography
> IMCA #1081
>
>
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Received on Tue 23 Mar 2010 04:03:17 PM PDT