-- On Sun, 7/12/09, Kelly Beatty <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rich K: you'll have to cut Mike a little slack. he is just
> starting out in
> astronomy (last January, in fact). I don't know about you,
> but my astrophotos
> weren't nearly this good after having been in the hobby for
> just 6 months.
>
>
> clear skies,
> Kelly
>
Hey Kelly,
I certainly did not mean to be overly critical of his images. No question my
early work was seriously flawed too, but as you know, dark frames and flats are
basic. Most people learn to use dark frames very quickly and flats usually come
soon after that. I was just pointing this out. You see a lot of things in
images when you are new to this technology that you can't identify, but soon
you learn to understand what you see and I have to question someone who is
obviously unskilled making such claims...
That being said, I have looked at the images a little more critically, or
should I say with a little more open mind. I'm not longer entirely convinced
that these are aircraft lights and may in fact be fragments from a late stage
in the bright flight of the body, after it has begun its break-up. I'll retract
my definitive statement that it wasn't the fireball, but I'm going to need a
lot more proof that he actually caught it before I will agree that this is an
image of the object in question.
Cheers
--
Richard
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