I hate to be a party pooper when everybody is all excited about having a photo
of a meteor fall but astro mikes photo shown on his webpage here:
http://www.mikesastrophotos.com/
Is not exactly all that it is cracked up to be.
Reporters are renouned for not properly checking their info in an effort to get
a scoupe but somebody deserves a raspberry over this one and at least somebody
should have seen this photo for what it is before newspapers started printing
it.
The greenish streak is a starboard (right) wingtip nav light, the centre red is
the rotating anti-collision beacon, and the red streak is the port (left)
wingtip nav light. The two brighter white centre lights are the landing lights
or maybe white tracking lights depending on what type of aircraft it is. It
would have been flying up the photo to the left of the observer. There was a
slight wind making the pilot crab into the wind which explains the non perfect
parellel lines.
The photo has quite a bit of dust and mike needs his CCD chip cleaned.
Basically, While he was inside waiting the the long exposure photo to finish an
aircraft flew through his image.
Cheers
DEAN
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