[meteorite-list] Meteor and Smoke Trail

From: Richard Kowalski <damoclid_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:22:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <879382.28484.qm_at_web113603.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

Thanks Bernd and all...

I might point out the Astronomy Picture of the Day from August 31st, 2006.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060831.html

This image was made by Adam Block as a composite image. I used our 1.5-m (60") telescope on Mt. Lemmon for the luminance frame and Adam used Astronomy Camp's 0.30-m (12") LX-200 telescope for the RGB images.

It shows just what that telescope can do when used for deep sky imaging and time is taken to process the images to their fullest. When surveying for NEOs, a quick and dirty processing (essentially just dividing out a flat frame) is more than sufficient.

BTW, the full field of the 1.5-m is one degree square.

Cheers

--
Richard Kowalski
Full Moon Photography
IMCA #1081
--- On Tue, 3/23/10, bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de> wrote:
> From: bernd.pauli at paulinet.de <bernd.pauli at paulinet.de>
> Subject: Meteor and Smoke Trail
> To: damoclid at yahoo.com, meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 1:29 PM
> Richard kindly wrote:
> 
> During my last run at the Catalina Schmidt I had a meteor
> streak through one field and it left a nice smoke trail.
> 
> http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~kowalski/interesting_events.html
> 
> Wow! Thanks for sharing with us! Awesome! If you click on
> the
> image for a larger view and then click once again for a
> still larger
> view, you can easily recognize the two Virgo galaxies to
> the upper
> right and if I'm not mistaken, it's NGC 4124 (an SA spiral
> galaxy)
> and NGC 4178 (SBc - a barred spiral galaxy).
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Bernd
> 
> 
> 
> To: damoclid at yahoo.com
> ? ? meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> 
> 
      

Received on Tue 23 Mar 2010 05:22:16 PM PDT