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- Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:24 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Meteor Streaking Beside Sun During Venus Transit
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Re: Meteor Streaking Beside Sun During Venus Transit
Nice comment and quote at the end. I would just add that the term "UFO" is more often interpreted in the common vernacular as compared to the literal description. Come to think of it, it is more apt an 'un-identified falling object' but still gets the same acrynom.
- Wed Jun 13, 2012 4:14 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Meteor Streaking Beside Sun During Venus Transit
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Re: Meteor Streaking Beside Sun During Venus Transit
I have considered the possibility of it being a contrail or something happening within the optics of the telescope. I don't think a contrail will appear beside the disk of the sun when viewed through a solar filter. A contrail would darken or distort the light, along an airplanes path, when in front...
- Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:42 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Meteor Streaking Beside Sun During Venus Transit
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Meteor Streaking Beside Sun During Venus Transit
In case anyone is interested, I caught a daytime terrestrial meteor streaking beside the view of the Sun with Venus transiting it. It can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4TSqtEpYE0. The video has some extraneous light present because I was using low budget technology - video camera plac...