A meteor trail (?)
Posted: Sat Jul 14, 2012 12:44 pm
Hello everybody,
this morning I was taking a series of images of the beautiful down conjunction Moon – Pleiades – Jupiter – Venus – Hyades.
Later on the computer screen I noticed on one of the images a strange formation, which I suppose, can be a meteor trail. (It’s seen on the left top, at the left from Pleiades):
This wouldn’t be so unusual, if this object is seen on two or more images. But on the previous (taken some 40 sec. before) and the next (about 40 sec. after) images there are no trace of this thing.Here theese two images:
before: and after: The pictures was taken with Canon 40D camera and 28mm /f 4.0 lens at 1000 ISO. Exp. time was 20 sec. each.
During the exposures I have lit the foreground trees with flashlight, but I was behind the camera, so this can’t be a reflection, moreover I didn’t change my position for the three images.
For those who want see the full-res images, I have uploaded also them:
IMG_0724
IMG_0725 (this is the image with supposed meteor trail)
IMG_0726
My question is: can this be really a meteor trail, or it's something else? What do you think?
Thanks for looking and best regards,
Emil
this morning I was taking a series of images of the beautiful down conjunction Moon – Pleiades – Jupiter – Venus – Hyades.
Later on the computer screen I noticed on one of the images a strange formation, which I suppose, can be a meteor trail. (It’s seen on the left top, at the left from Pleiades):
This wouldn’t be so unusual, if this object is seen on two or more images. But on the previous (taken some 40 sec. before) and the next (about 40 sec. after) images there are no trace of this thing.Here theese two images:
before: and after: The pictures was taken with Canon 40D camera and 28mm /f 4.0 lens at 1000 ISO. Exp. time was 20 sec. each.
During the exposures I have lit the foreground trees with flashlight, but I was behind the camera, so this can’t be a reflection, moreover I didn’t change my position for the three images.
For those who want see the full-res images, I have uploaded also them:
IMG_0724
IMG_0725 (this is the image with supposed meteor trail)
IMG_0726
My question is: can this be really a meteor trail, or it's something else? What do you think?
Thanks for looking and best regards,
Emil