[meteorite-list] Bolide? Doggone?

[Darryl Pitt]

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:

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> Richard Kowalski
> http://fullmoonphotography.net
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> --- On Tue, 9/1/09, Darryl Pitt <darryl at dof3.com> wrote:
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>> 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
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> It's a great book. I've witnessed nearly everything contained within  
> its pages.
>
> Richard
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