Re: (meteorobs) pictures

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• Subject: Re: (meteorobs) pictures
• From: Wesley Stone <wstone@lclarkdot edu>
• Date: Fri, 6 Dec 1996 19:36:55 -0800 (PST)
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On Fri, 6 Dec 1996, Fuerst, Robert C. (Chris) wrote:

> 
> 
>      Everyone is talking about pictures of people.  Is there somewhere out 
>  there that has GOOD jpegs, tiff's, gif's etc. of meteors?  Most of what I 
> have found on the web is  very poor in detail. A blurry streak or a line 
> maybe.  Maybe that's all there is?  Someone with a CCD must have something 
> they caught?  It would be nice to show someone and say "Hey, this is what 
> your missing by watching some infomercial on hair paint!"
> 
>                                    1st
> 

I don't know how much detail one might expect in a still image of a 
dynamic object like a meteor, but William McLaughlin has one that blows 
my mind:

http://www.harborsidedot com/home/n/ngc253/comcomp.htm

I was there, and the Perseids were kicking, so maybe it's not so 
improbable that he caught one on his ST-5.  Not much detail that I can 
see, and I still don't know how anyone could describe it as a "steak" :).

--
Wes Stone <wstone@lclarkdot edu>  Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR
                 SKYTOUR Amateur Astronomy Hypertext:
          http://www.lclarkdot edu/~wstone/skytour/skytour.html

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