[meteorite-list] Meteor and Smoke Trail

[Richard Kowalski]

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.

I thought the readers of this list might be interested in seeing this image too.

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.

The page is located at:

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~kowalski/interesting_events.html

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