Hi Richard,
I appreciate your thoughts and your analysis could very well be spot
on---but low resolution and soft focus at infinity are not distortions
of the sort to which you allude, and I think I'll hold fast to the
notion of a "bolide by camera-phone" being able to evoke a sun dog.
I suppose in the end I just have a bit more faith in the report of a
ball "speeding across the sky".....
....and of course I agree that embellished eyewitness accounts can be
problematic (along with my misplaced faith)
;-) Oh well.
And all best / Darryl
On Sep 1, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Richard Kowalski wrote:
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Richard Kowalski
http://fullmoonphotography.net
IMCA #1081
--- On Tue, 9/1/09, Darryl Pitt <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Darryl Pitt <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Bolide? Doggone?
To: "Richard Kowalski" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Meteorite List" <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 2009, 11:09 AM
Hiya,
If the description of the object's transit through the sky
is
accurate, I would have to disagree.
I would too, but it's an embellishment to make his story interesting.
(As the resolution of the camera is weak, and focus
limited, a bolide
could readily blur into a sun dog-like appearance.)
/d
Nope, if that were true the entire image would show the distortions.
If you look at the images on the wiki page, or google sun dogs and
click on images you'll see many examples that look exactly like this
one.
It is an *extremely* common phenomena...
Almost no one looks up any longer, so even the most common phenomena
are unknown to just about everyone. I highly recommend _The Nature
of Light and Colour in the Open Air_
http://tinyurl.com/no2ej9
It's a great book. I've witnessed nearly everything contained within
its pages.
Richard
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