It still looks like a fireball to me but can't be if you had a full
minute to recompose and take a second shot. A fireball would have been
gone in seconds.
Chuck Norcutt
On 3/5/2012 7:13 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> I've included the second photo and a full-pixel side-by-side comparison
> photo. I recomposed for the second photo, so it probably was taken
> within a minute of the other one, not immediately.
>
> After examining the full pixel versions, I am inclined to think the
> leading, pointed light is actually a jet. It shows some puffs right
> behind it in one of the photos, and I think these become the blobs we
> see higher up in the photos.
>
> Joel W.
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Mark Marr-Lyon wrote:
>> Not yet :) I have seen a couple of fireballs that look like that, but
>> I don't remember seeing any contrails that look like that. I look
>> forward to seeing the other frame. Full resolution crops of the object
>> might help too.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Joel Wilcox<jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> Thanks Mark. It does look that way. You aren't swayed by the contrail
>>> theorists?
>>>
>>> Joel W.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012, at 06:28 AM, Mark Marr-Lyon wrote:
>>>> It looks to me like you've caught a pretty good sized fireball
>>>> breaking up. Nice photo!
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Joel Wilcox<jfwilcox@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> Exciting day yesterday as I started working my way through the last
>>>>> three rolls of Kodachrome that came back from processing in Kansas over
>>>>> a year ago. I'll eventually put together a "best of" effort gallery,
>>>>> but I noticed a strange phenom in this one:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://myweb.uiowa.edu/jfwilcox
>
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