No chance of it being a comet. If it was, it would have been in the other 4 images taken within a 20 second time frame. As it was, I shot 5 images and this one solitary frame had the meteor looking object. I would say it was a flying saucer but then I would be calling myselg a "kook" !
:-) Walt On 7/23/08, Amita Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Walter Hamler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I shot this back in June 1978. It is a close conjunction of Saturn and > > Mars. I shot 5 frames and one frame had the object shown here between > > the two planets. I believe it is a meteor caught just as it was > > entering the atmosphere. The exposure was maybe 2 seconds on B&W Tech > > Pan film. > > > > Walt > > > > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/newtmaker/Saturn-and-Marsweb.jpg > > Great shot, Walt! Could it be a comet? Is the sun to the left of the frame? > > Amita > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
