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Re: (meteorobs) Mystery Leonids photo ...please help
The first thing I need to know is, what's the star field? I am unable to
identify it by inspection. From your description, I would think it would
cover the area Hydra - Monoceros - Puppis, but the absence of certain key
stars rules this out. One thing appears certain: the radiant is not inside
the frame. The four stars on the left edge should hold the key to
identifying the star field, but I just can't get a handle on it. Can you
give me any further information that might identify the field?
> From: "Leo S." <l.stachowicz@btinternet.com>
> Reply-To: meteorobs@atmob.org
> Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 13:47:56 +0000
> To: meteorobs@atmob.org
> Subject: (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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