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(meteorobs) Mystery Leonids photo ...please help
I have a photograph of what appears to be the remnants of an exploding
bolidie,but i cannot be sure as i have never come across anything like it
before !
Please have a look at the photo here:
<http://www.btinternet.com/%7El.stachowicz/pics/leo-2001/D2-UK05_Leo012_burs
t.jpg>
The reasons i think it is the remnants of an exploding meteor are
1. the fireball which i also captured on film(an unrelated event) seems to
have a similar green textured haze surrounding the brightest part of it
(see the photos on the main page about 1/2 way down here:
<http://www.btinternet.com/~l.stachowicz/pics/leo-2001/leonids-2001.htm> )
and
2. I recall seeing a similar green texture after a bolidie exploded on the
same night(but was not captured on film)
If it is an exploding meteor i'm not sure that it is a Leonid,as the
radiant is at the same height in the photo on the far left(a faint Leonid
just below left center of the frame points back to the radiant),and the
spread of the debris seems to indicate a vertical,rather than horizontal
meteor which caused the debris.
I've checked both frames either side of the photo in question,and can see
no evidence of the event itself,or a persistent train,so my feeling is that
i must have started the exposure immediately after the event which caused
the debris ...if only i'd started a second or 2 earlier!!
There is also the possibility that a bright meteor which passed just
outside my frame may have produced the light which then reflected off a
cloud in my frame during the exposure.
Any comments or ideas on the matter would be much appreciated.
Leo
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