Patrick; Neat pictures. Thanks for sharing them. Ed L --- Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> wrote:
Edward Lunt wrote:
Hi everyone; Driving home from Kaysville last Sunday night I saw an extremely bright meteor that fell all the way to the horizon. This meteor as well as the topic of other bright meteors over the past couple of nights reminded me of an image that I have been going to post for a couple of weeks now. It was taken last August while imaging IC5068. I noticed the familiar streak across one of the R frames, but this was considerably brighter than most. As I looked at it, I saw a pronounced spiral pattern as it twisted its way through the sky. When enlarged, it also shows a definite "wobble" to the seemingly straight trail.
I've watched shuttles reenter three times and in every case the train (it really is called a "train", BTW) was twisted.
Some pictures Holly and I took in 1995,
http://www.trilobyte.net/paw/slas/patrickw/PATRICKW523F.JPG
and
http://www.trilobyte.net/paw/slas/patrickw/PATRICKW524F.JPG
, sort of show it but it was best seen with binoculars. Really spectacular!
Patrick
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