(meteorobs) Re: Disintegrating meteor photo.

[Ed Majden]

    This is the first response to my question about the authenticity if the
exploding meteor photo submitted by Bjorn Sorgeim.  Dr. Rob McNaught is a
respected meteor scientist living in Australia.  He agrees, that this is NOT
a meteor photograph but suggests it is just a star photo taken on a shaky
telescope mount.  With his permission I am posting his message to this news
group.

Ed Majden

Hi,
This is very clearly, in my view, camera shake affecting a star image.
It is equally clearly nothing to do with a meteor.  I've imaged many
meteors with telescopes of several metres focal length and also seen
telescope shake in similar telescopes.  This is the latter.
Cheers, Rob

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Robert H. McNaught
Uppsala Telescope/Siding Spring Survey
Australian National University
Siding Spring Observatory
Coonabarabran, NSW 2357
Australia

P:  +61 2 6842 6260
F:  +61 2 6842 6240

SSS Webpage: http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~rmn/
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