(meteorobs) OT -Question to the UFOCaptureV2. -PAUL PUGH et.al.,

[prospector at znet.com]

Larry,

   I observe from home, southern Oceanside, with lots of light pollution
from the cities (Carlsbad too) and shopping malls below me. All this gives
me something like a dark muddy green contrast to see dark lines in the
skies. Ten years ago I could just make out Andromeda, but no more, not
without binoculars.

                                         Dave

Quoting Larry <ycsentinel at att.net>:

> Interesting topic coupled with your personal observations Dave.
>
> Sounds like it would justify a closer scrutiny..... Intrinsic light
> diffraction of dense shock waves could (IMHO), illuminate shock waves
> under
> the right conditions of ambient background light scatter I think.
>
> Polarized filtering might enhance something like this with a common 0.1
> Lux
> narrow field camera using a longer focal length lens for detail?
>
> If Chris is listening in maybe he or others might have some good ideas
> and
> speculation founded in optical physics and dynamics.
>
> YCSentinel
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <prospector at znet.com>
> To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Sent: 2009/08/28 08:05
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) OT -Question to the UFOCaptureV2. -PAUL PUGH
> et.al.,
>
>
> Larry,
>
>    I understand why you want to mask dark line objects but this could be
> an
> area of important observation. For about five years starting in 1997, I
> observed the night skys SLOWLY scanning with my 10X50 binoculars. I saw
> many dim objects which i gave different classifications to. One I called
> Dark Line objects, of three types, one was like waves of some sort like
> shock waves but without apparent cause, except for two, another we later
> called Dark Meteors, very fast dark line objects of various sizes (some
> would be birds and insects but not all) and the third catigory were
> observations of objects in the atmosphere, either above or below the
> ablation zone, they looked like this <===== a shock front followed by a
> sidewall. They were long or short, depending on their direction of travel
> to the observer. I saw one very short in Taurus  <==  and several one
> night
> that were almost coming directly at me in a group (  (   (  just the edge
> of
> the shock front visible. One of my most important observations was a very
> clear dark Meteor that terminated in a dim perfectly round moon sized
> flash. I saw a second one another time, but it was much further away and
> smaller. I believe there's real science to be learned by recording dark
> objects of all types as I have found some of them to have substance and
> not
> known to the scientific community. I have made the rounds over the years
> and
> no one seems to know or understand my observations, you have the ability
> to
> study them and break new ground and back up your findings with recorded
> data. I didn't have that so it was just the word of an observer.
>
>                                    Dave English
>                                Oceanside, California
>
>