(meteorobs) Fireball or Comet?

Thomas Dorman drygulch_99 at yahoo.com
Tue Oct 23 09:54:07 EDT 2007


My question is how long total in time did Mr.Roberts
see the object?If we are getting into time frames of
25 to 30 minutes or more than it seems to slow for
aircraft.Mr.Roberts stated he had to go into his home
to get his camera.Then Mr.Roberts had to get the
batteries for the camera and then load the
batteries.Then he had to drive to a near by lake to be
able to photography the object.The images are said to
cover a time frame of 15 minutes or so.How much of the
sky did the object cross(degrees)in the time frame
that it was observed? Hopefully more information will
be posted by the observer.
Thomas Dorman
--- Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl>
wrote:

> In my opinion the pictures show a sunlit aircraft
> contrail.
> 
> - Marco
> 
> 
> 
> Al Degutis schreef:
> > A reader sent me the following via e-mail:
> > 
> > ================================================
> > Fireball or Comet?
> > 
> > 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
> > ================================================
> > 
> > I've uploaded his pictures here:
> > http://www.skyinsight.com/gallery/v/eddieroberts/
> > 
> 
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