Nope, the exposure was no greater than 3 seconds but most likely 2. I have records of similar exposures on Saturn around the same time and they were all around 1.5 to 2 seconds. You have to remember, this is probably a small meteor, probably 40 to 60 miles up, probably moving more towards the camera rather than across the sky at a 90 degree angle.Even at that altitide, it was probably actually 100 miles away (slant range distance) and typical speeds of those objects are upwards of 10000 mph. Smaller objects a little slower. Don't make the mistake of judging size based on the image. 99% of the image would be plasma and smoke from the burning meteor, not the object itself.
Walt On 7/23/08, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Walter Hamler 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. > > http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v699/newtmaker/Saturn-and-Marsweb.jpg > > Something odd here and I can only see two possibilities: > 1 - You're mistaken and the exposure was a lot shorter than 2 seconds > 2 - Whatever "it" might be, it's moving a lot slower than a meteor > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > 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 [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
