(meteorobs) Fireball or Comet?

[Marco Langbroek]

In my opinion the pictures show a sunlit aircraft contrail.

- Marco



Al Degutis schreef:
> A reader sent me the following via e-mail:
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> Fireball or Comet?
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> I went outside and and i noticed a huge streak in the western sky
> around 6:30pm, it had a huge head at first, i ran inside to get my cam
> and got back outside and noticed the head was smaller. Realized no
> battery in cam so i went to get battery then by this time the head was
> smaller again and now it was going down behind a house and couldn't
> get a shot so i got in my car and drove to a nearby lake and captured
> a few photos. I'm not sure what it was. Time span from first photo to
> the last was about 15 mins or so. Images taken with a canon digital
> rebel 350D with a 75mm to 300mm canon lens at full zoom, second pic
> was cropped.
> 
> Images were taken from Newfoundland, Canada by Eddie Roberts on Oct 22
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> I've uploaded his pictures here:
> http://www.skyinsight.com/gallery/v/eddieroberts/
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