(meteorobs) Great fireball photo(s) on APOD

[Shy Halatzi]

GeoZay, have you considered the possibility that the meteor appeared
only a few minutes or even tens of seconds after the exposure started,
so that there was not
enough time for blurring?

Shy

2008/6/29, GeoZay at aol.com <GeoZay at aol.com>:
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>  >>Other than the insert, I do not believe any massaging was done  on that
>  photo. I have seen supurb photos of the MW from Austrailia before  on
>  Astronomy websites and they do not need low Lux cameras in long  exposure or
>  any touchup. A plain camera will do  it.<<
>  It's a nice image, but it's more than obvious that some kind of  manipulation
>  has been done to this photograph. If you get pinpoint stars, you  will end up
>  with blurred land features that are in the same photograph. I use to  do it
>  all the time. Never been able to get both pinpoint stars and non  blurred land
>  features from the same exposure. You can come close, but not good  enuf where
>  you can't tell it.
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>  >>The backlighting of the foreground brush was probably from a  small camping
>  light.<<
>  Perhaps and maybe even a weak strobe flash,  but that doesn't explain  the
>  relatively sharp outline of Ayers rock, nor the sharp cloud features  along the
>  horizon. Clouds along the horizon will appear relatively stationary  just like
>  land features and should appear blurred if the camera is tracking the
>  stars...which it apparently is.
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שי חלצי Shy Halatzi
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