(meteorobs) Fireball Photo???

[Anne van Weerden]

Hi all,

You can see patches of blue sky on top of the picure, so maybe the 
clouds aren't so thick as they seem to be and so it can be a sunlit 
trail of an airplane high enough to be illuminated by the sun. So 
it's more a coincidence that you can see that part of the trail 
through the clouds.

Greetings, Anne



At 8:08 -0500 25/2/06, Richardson, Terry R. wrote:
>Bob et al.,
>
>Actually it is pretty easy to get an "add on" to look like this. You 
>paste the entire streak of light in a new layer in the photograph 
>and then with the mouse or a stylus tool on a digital tablet erase 
>the streak of light in places allowing the underlying layer to show 
>through. The result can make the underlying layer appear to be in 
>front of the "add on". The digital tools are pretty versatile and 
>can partially erase pixels so that there are no sharp edges. 
>Photography, even negatives (they can be made from a digital file) 
>is less and less reliable as conclusive evidence these days.
>
>Clear skies,
>
>Terry Richardson
>Department of Physics and Astronomy
>College of Charleston
>843 953-8071
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org on behalf of Robert Lunsford
>Sent: Sat 2/25/2006 6:08 AM
>To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
>Subject: (meteorobs) Fireball Photo???
>
>Please visit the website below and let me know what you think.
>
>http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v623/sdbound182/DSCN1905.jpg
>
>The photographer claims his intended target was the small aircraft.
>He claims this object lasted 1-2 seconds and occurred near noon
>local time. He also states the object appeared toward the northeast.
>If this is so then a lens artifact from the sun is not possible being that
>the sun was at his back. You can verify this by noticing the shadow
>of the wing upon the fuselage of the aircraft.
>
>To me, this appears to be a crude add-on to this photograph. It is
>quite "un-meteor like". I wonder though how he got it to appear as
>if the streak was behind the clouds during the first portion of it's
>re-entry?
>
>One more thought...this location was fairly close to Vandenberg,
>but I could not find any scheduled launches for the afternoon of
>February 18. Besides, he claims the object was going down, not
>upward.
>
>Your thoughts?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Bob Lunsford
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