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Re: (meteorobs) Question about Leonid photo



I don't think he used a fisheye on that one. I found the original photo on
his website. It's not cropped as tightly as the APOD version. His other
Leonid photos are well worth looking at.

http://www.astrokorea.com/kwon572/leonids.htm

Michael Clark
mrclark@internetcds.com
Ashland, Oregon, USA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Timo Leponiemi" <fmbb@sci.fi>
To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Question about Leonid photo


> Or is it a (crop of) Fish-Eye photo?? I noticed the same phenomena with my
> 16 mm Fish-Eye!
> Some of my Leonid Photos are now available on http://www.lepomedia.fi
(click
> first SkyPhoto Library, then Meteors). In a photo there is abouth 50
leonids
> on the same photo.
> I made my expedition to Taiwan among six other Finnish meteor enthusiast.
> Timo Leponiemi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Clark <mrclark@internetcds.com>
> To: meteorobs@atmob.org <meteorobs@atmob.org>
> Date: 13. joulukuuta 2001 20:27
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Question about Leonid photo
>
>
> >Here's my guess on the astronomy picture of the day question.
> >
> >The camera is facing north-northwest and while the photo is being taken
the
> >radiant is rising behind the camera. That would mean the angled Leonids
> came
> >early in the exposure while the trains that appear to come straight down
> are
> >later when the radiant is high in the sky.
> >
> >I would think that this exposure was longer than 40 minutes though. Can
> >anyone tell if that is accurate based on the length of the star trails?
> >
> >Michael Clark
> >mrclark@internetcds.com
> >Ashland, Oregon, USA
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Ed Cannon" <ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu>
> >To: <meteorobs@atmob.org>
> >Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 10:53 PM
> >Subject: (meteorobs) Question about Leonid photo
> >
> >
> >> On the Astronomy Picture of the Day for Dec. 12, there was
> >> a nice Leonid photo:
> >>
> >> http://antwrp.gsfc.nasadot gov/apod/ap011212.html
> >>
> >> This is just to ask about the angles of the meteors.  They
> >> don't appear to be radiating from one point (To the left of
> >> the observatory they appear to be approaching each other.),
> >> but I know it has to be something about the optics of the
> >> system and/or the radiant's motion over a period of time.
> >> I'm not a photographer, so I know very little about types
> >> of lenses, etc.
> >>
> >> Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexasdot edu - Austin, Texas, USA
> >>
> >> The archive and Web site for our list is at http://www.meteorobs.org
> >> If you are interested in complete links on the 2001 LEONIDS, see:
> >> http://www.meteorobs.org/storms.html
> >> To stop getting email from the 'meteorobs' list, use the Web form at:
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> >
> >The archive and Web site for our list is at http://www.meteorobs.org
> >If you are interested in complete links on the 2001 LEONIDS, see:
> >http://www.meteorobs.org/storms.html
> >To stop getting email from the 'meteorobs' list, use the Web form at:
> >http://www.meteorobs.org/subscribe.html
> >
>
> The archive and Web site for our list is at http://www.meteorobs.org
> If you are interested in complete links on the 2001 LEONIDS, see:
> http://www.meteorobs.org/storms.html
> To stop getting email from the 'meteorobs' list, use the Web form at:
> http://www.meteorobs.org/subscribe.html

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