I did consult a star atlas ant I think they could be perseids -- meteorites seem to show up at various parts of the sky, not necessarily heading from Perseus directly. It is a wide stream of cometary dust that yge Earth passes through and I reckon that the atmosphere may hit the dust grains at various angles. Also saying the tracks look too uniform isn't a good way to judge them when you consider the field of view is tiny -- in a larger field they may have been less regular over s lmgrt stretch of their entry path. Well, that's my story and I'm stickin' with if! -- Thanks, Joe ------------------------------ On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 9:48 AM MDT Brent Watson wrote:
Joe,
They can't both be Perseids. They are coming from different directions. I am not sure where the Perseid radiant is with respect to your photograph, but in fact neither may be a Perseid. Please check the direction of travel. The tracks also look pretty uniform. In fact, almost too uniform to be meteors. Are they instead, satellites?
Brent
________________________________ From: Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:25 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Galaxy NGC 6946 through smoke and meteriors
Hi Gang, Here are shots I took at Lakeside early Wednesday morning; the captions explain them.
http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=5713&g2_imageViewsIndex=1
http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=5716&g2_imageViewsIndex=1
http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=5719&g2_imageViewsIndex=1
Almost nothing but a few bright stars showed up in the blue exposures, thanks to the Patch Springs air filter.
-- Thanks for looking, Joe _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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