(meteorobs) Strange fireball photograph from 1994
LEO STACHOWICZ
l.stachowicz at btinternet.com
Mon Mar 12 18:31:41 EDT 2012
Thanks for the replies Marco and Stuart.
Rotation might make sense I think, as could a bumped tripod.
Clear skies,
Leo
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From: Marco Langbroek <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl>
To: LEO STACHOWICZ <l.stachowicz at btinternet.com>; Meteor science and meteor observing <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Sunday, 11 March 2012, 10:20
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Strange fireball photograph from 1994
Op 10-3-2012 23:29, LEO STACHOWICZ schreef:
> Hello all,
>
> Here is an interesting photograph of a fireball I came across earlier. I can't
> remember ever having seen a meteor/fireball photograph like it.
>
> Towards the end of the fireball's path, the path appears to be "stepped". I
> don't think this is a photographic/scanner artifact or aliasing. The only thing
> that I can think of that might have caused this is fragmentation of the
> meteoroid. I'd be interested to hear what other meteorobs subscribers thoughts
> are on this one.
Perhaps due to fragmentation, perhaps due to an excited photographer bumping his tripod, jumping up and down (ground shaking as a result), or janking the wire-release in excitement.
While photographing satellites I sometimes got stepped trails because my neighbour's cat was making love to my tripod: prrr prrrr prrr prrr!. :-)
- Marco
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