Starship Asterisk*

Big congrats to victorengel for the horizontal compression technique. I tried that on my own diff image, only I ran the horizontal compression to 10:1 -- there is NO WAY that line is straight. In an earlier post, I commented that only the exceeding straight line made me nervous about the bug conclus...

As the original poster of the "blowing light bulb casts shadow" theory (page 1), I done a little more reading and thinking. Remember, simple is best. For this given area, light bulbs likely burn out at sunset more frequently that meteors arrive. However, bugs fly around more often than lig...

I'm convinced it's a bug! maybe that sounds too simplistic, but i think it is quite realistic. 1. right coloring for a small gnat or mosquito. 2. that is about the distance a bug could fly in about 1/20th of a second (i think, it kinda depends on the distance from the lense that the bug was flying)...

Secondly, the 'trail' looks to be very straight, but slightly widening farther from the 'flash' end, suggesting perhaps a shadow rather than a trail of some sort - although perspective might account for this.... I have a nice image, which I have no place to post (darn!). It was generated by subtrac...