And, with the addition of the Star Trek uniform, I think he's on his
way to becoming a legend...at least in his own mind anyway.
Whether the image proves to be an airplane of a meteor, I've always
had a hard time legitimizing people who dress-up like fictional
fantasy characters.
Best,
John Gwilliam
At 05:25 PM 7/11/2009, Rob Wesel wrote:
The telescope image is cool and all but I'm diggin' the top one
where he's in company with Einstein, Hawking and Galileo....a new hero emerges.
Rob Wesel
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When Preparation meets talent
Mike Hankey, 2009
or
Luck is what happens when a light source crosses
A random point in space while you are coincidentally
Photographing that same random point in space.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Bandli" <fuzzf...@comcast.net>
To: "'Meteorites USA'" <e...@meteoritesusa.com>; "'dean bessey'"
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Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astro Mikes meteor streak Photo
Another interesting feature that points to fireball is that the light
streaks are not consistent in intensity - like a flickering object. This
could be due to over-enhancement, but I don't think so. Every other
telescope/long exposure image I can find on the web (of aircraft) shows them
like solid bars of light or strobes. Also, it may be my screen, but I cannot
see red or blue lights in Hankey's image.
A good example of a large plane:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0708/M33airplane_stephan720.jpg
or search Google Images for many more.
Mike Bandli
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Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 4:56 PM
To: dean bessey; meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Astro Mikes meteor streak Photo
Hey Dean, List,
OK all... Before we get all excited over this. The photo IS in fact 100%
a fireball, without a doubt it is a fireball fragmentation. It came from
Mike Hankey and he has graciously let me post it on my meteorite blog.
There is an explanation of the photo below with links to enhanced
images. It is not a plane, though I thought it was when I first looked
at it, after careful examination and looking at the hi-res images it is
a fireball/bolide event captured in the photo. There are too many
streaks large and small for this to be a plane unless that plane is lit
up like a Christmas tree.
In addition you will notice that toward the bottom of the image the
streak get further apart, just as pieces of the fireball would have done
during fragmentation...
Look at this hi-res image:
http://meteoriteblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/meteorjuly62009-watermar
ked-blog.jpg
And this one here which I enhanced to show the streaks a bit clearer:
http://meteoriteblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Fireball-Photo-MH-closeu
p.jpg
And this one:
http://meteoriteblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Fireball-Photo-Mike-Hank
ey-.jpg
Read the blog post here:
http://meteoriteblog.com/fireball-photos-meteor-streaks-through-sky-pa-fireb
all/
Enjoy...
Regards,
Eric
P.S. Sky & Telescope has asked Hankey to publish the image...
dean bessey wrote:
--- On Sat, 7/11/09, Mike Bandli <fuzzf...@comcast.net> wrote:
I have captured numerous aircraft on long exposure and they all have
strobes and appear as segmented lines. This one certainly does not, though
it may be so close that it is not showing the break in strobes <snip>
I think the explanation for that is probably that usually you photograph
small slow moving aircraft like a cessna while this is a much larger
aircraft (Due to all of the light streaks - a small cessna wouldent have as
many lights) and was probably moving faster and further away (Although not
30,000 feet as there were landing lights on).
Anybody also notice that in the photo the "Meteor" is going up toward
space rather than falling like you would expect a meteor to do?
Cheers
DEAN
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