The night of Nov. 26-27, I was sitting on my front porch testing my new iPhone. I wanted to see if it was sensitive enough to record the stars, and aiming near the Orion Nebula. Here is a sequence of eight images, all of them taken at 10:59 except that the last two were taken at 11. The juniper bush is bright because the flash went off for each frame. While I was shooting these I had the strong impression that something flashed down from in front and arched away to the left, sweeping up and then down. I wonder if it was a meteorite that skipped off the atmosphere. Only three frames of the eight show any of this. The one with the longest streak also is the least sharp, possibly because my hand jiggled as I was shooting -- it was pretty startling. I know the quality is crappy. I find that if I shrink the size of the screen that shows it, the quality doesn't seem quite as bad. Just click "download" and this should trigger your Windows Media Player (or whatever kind of video player your computer has) to play it. I would appreciate comments. http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=6060 Thanks, Joe
I am not able to get to the movie. I click on Download Movie and all I get is a blank screen. Anyone else having this problem or is it something at my end? patrick On 01 Dec 2014, at 17:56, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
The night of Nov. 26-27, I was sitting on my front porch testing my new iPhone. I wanted to see if it was sensitive enough to record the stars, and aiming near the Orion Nebula. Here is a sequence of eight images, all of them taken at 10:59 except that the last two were taken at 11. The juniper bush is bright because the flash went off for each frame. While I was shooting these I had the strong impression that something flashed down from in front and arched away to the left, sweeping up and then down. I wonder if it was a meteorite that skipped off the atmosphere. Only three frames of the eight show any of this. The one with the longest streak also is the least sharp, possibly because my hand jiggled as I was shooting -- it was pretty startling. I know the quality is crappy. I find that if I shrink the size of the screen that shows it, the quality doesn't seem quite as bad. Just click "download" and this should trigger your Windows Media Player (or whatever kind of video player your computer has) to play it. I would appreciate comments.
http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=6060
Thanks, Joe
I can play the movie (on my mac), but all I see is the tree/bush -- not seeing the streaks. Maybe i'm not in a dark enough room...? Or contrast setting are wrong? Or my eyes are bad (all of the above?)./Rich From: Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 5:56 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Odd meteor streaks? The night of Nov. 26-27, I was sitting on my front porch testing my new iPhone. I wanted to see if it was sensitive enough to record the stars, and aiming near the Orion Nebula. Here is a sequence of eight images, all of them taken at 10:59 except that the last two were taken at 11. The juniper bush is bright because the flash went off for each frame. While I was shooting these I had the strong impression that something flashed down from in front and arched away to the left, sweeping up and then down. I wonder if it was a meteorite that skipped off the atmosphere. Only three frames of the eight show any of this. The one with the longest streak also is the least sharp, possibly because my hand jiggled as I was shooting -- it was pretty startling. I know the quality is crappy. I find that if I shrink the size of the screen that shows it, the quality doesn't seem quite as bad. Just click "download" and this should trigger your Windows Media Player (or whatever kind of video player your computer has) to play it. I would appreciate comments. http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=6060 Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
I'll upload each of the eight frames separately and hope you can see what I'm talking about. I may be able to adjust the contrast too. -- Joe From: Richard Tenney <retenney@yahoo.com> To: Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com>; Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 11:36 PM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Odd meteor streaks? I can play the movie (on my mac), but all I see is the tree/bush -- not seeing the streaks. Maybe i'm not in a dark enough room...? Or contrast setting are wrong? Or my eyes are bad (all of the above?)./Rich From: Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 5:56 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Odd meteor streaks? The night of Nov. 26-27, I was sitting on my front porch testing my new iPhone. I wanted to see if it was sensitive enough to record the stars, and aiming near the Orion Nebula. Here is a sequence of eight images, all of them taken at 10:59 except that the last two were taken at 11. The juniper bush is bright because the flash went off for each frame. While I was shooting these I had the strong impression that something flashed down from in front and arched away to the left, sweeping up and then down. I wonder if it was a meteorite that skipped off the atmosphere. Only three frames of the eight show any of this. The one with the longest streak also is the least sharp, possibly because my hand jiggled as I was shooting -- it was pretty startling. I know the quality is crappy. I find that if I shrink the size of the screen that shows it, the quality doesn't seem quite as bad. Just click "download" and this should trigger your Windows Media Player (or whatever kind of video player your computer has) to play it. I would appreciate comments. http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=6060 Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
I've played the 8 images a number of times. On a full screen the image is so enlarged, it is possible to see large vertical boxes of a specific color (blue and blacks mostly and a red/orange). I see a vertically slanted streak in frame/picture 3 and MAYBE it is my eyes or my imagination, but the same streak is very black in the next image. Frame/picture 5 has a very wide horizontal streak. Only a guess, but your pictures were of short duration, a second or less, a meteor streak would show up on a picture where the shutter was open for a longer amount of time, minimally many seconds. IMHO 5 is definitely not a meteor. 3 is suspicious, may be but IMHO not a meteor either. It seems your camera is not sensitive enough to pick up basic star images, let alone a meteor streak. It is my guess, the two streaks are closer to home, in the atmosphere. As to what exactly, not a clue. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, December 1, 2014 5:56:19 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Odd meteor streaks? The night of Nov. 26-27, I was sitting on my front porch testing my new iPhone. I wanted to see if it was sensitive enough to record the stars, and aiming near the Orion Nebula. Here is a sequence of eight images, all of them taken at 10:59 except that the last two were taken at 11. The juniper bush is bright because the flash went off for each frame. While I was shooting these I had the strong impression that something flashed down from in front and arched away to the left, sweeping up and then down. I wonder if it was a meteorite that skipped off the atmosphere. Only three frames of the eight show any of this. The one with the longest streak also is the least sharp, possibly because my hand jiggled as I was shooting -- it was pretty startling. I know the quality is crappy. I find that if I shrink the size of the screen that shows it, the quality doesn't seem quite as bad. Just click "download" and this should trigger your Windows Media Player (or whatever kind of video player your computer has) to play it. I would appreciate comments. http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=6060 Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
I can barely see Orion, but it is there. The streaks are clearly foreground objects. Probably too late in the season for insects though they still could be some tough hangers-on in the suburbs. Lots of warm nooks and crannies around houses. They could also be ash from a neighbor's fireplace or wood stove. The streaks are not perfectly straight lines, one is even noticeably curved. And since Orion is in focus most of the time, but the streaks are not, it argues convincingly for foreground objects. Either that or paranormal activity. [?] On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy < utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
The night of Nov. 26-27, I was sitting on my front porch testing my new iPhone. I wanted to see if it was sensitive enough to record the stars, and aiming near the Orion Nebula. Here is a sequence of eight images, all of them taken at 10:59 except that the last two were taken at 11. The juniper bush is bright because the flash went off for each frame. While I was shooting these I had the strong impression that something flashed down from in front and arched away to the left, sweeping up and then down. I wonder if it was a meteorite that skipped off the atmosphere. Only three frames of the eight show any of this. The one with the longest streak also is the least sharp, possibly because my hand jiggled as I was shooting -- it was pretty startling. I know the quality is crappy. I find that if I shrink the size of the screen that shows it, the quality doesn't seem quite as bad. Just click "download" and this should trigger your Windows Media Player (or whatever kind of video player your computer has) to play it. I would appreciate comments.
http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=6060
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The phenomenon known as the mysterious "Flying Rods " or "Skyfish" Skyfish . Rods . Mysterious Unidentified Flying Objects https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMTh9kuIlhE RODS: Extra-Dimensional Creatures - Monster Quest - Paranormal UFO Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmeUMlYhMe4 Just a possibility Jamie B
-----Original Message----- From: Utah-Astronomy [mailto:utah-astronomy- bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Chuck Hards Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 5:43 AM To: Joe Bauman; Utah Astronomy Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Odd meteor streaks?
I can barely see Orion, but it is there.
The streaks are clearly foreground objects. Probably too late in the season for insects though they still could be some tough hangers-on in the suburbs. Lots of warm nooks and crannies around houses. They could also be ash from a neighbor's fireplace or wood stove.
The streaks are not perfectly straight lines, one is even noticeably curved. And since Orion is in focus most of the time, but the streaks are not, it argues convincingly for foreground objects.
Either that or paranormal activity. [?]
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy < utah- astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
The night of Nov. 26-27, I was sitting on my front porch testing my new iPhone. I wanted to see if it was sensitive enough to record the stars, and aiming near the Orion Nebula. Here is a sequence of eight images, all of them taken at 10:59 except that the last two were taken at 11. The juniper bush is bright because the flash went off for each frame. While I was shooting these I had the strong impression that something flashed down from in front and arched away to the left, sweeping up and then down. I wonder if it was a meteorite that skipped off the atmosphere. Only three frames of the eight show any of this. The one with the longest streak also is the least sharp, possibly because my hand jiggled as I was shooting -- it was pretty startling. I know the quality is crappy. I find that if I shrink the size of the screen that shows it, the quality doesn't seem quite as bad. Just click "download" and this should trigger your Windows Media Player (or whatever kind of video player your computer has) to play it. I would appreciate comments.
http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=6060
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You nailed it Chuck, the streaks are foreground objects. I'd add that they were illuminated by ambient lighting, not the flash. If the flash had caught them, they would appear as bright, out-of-focus objects not as streaks. Paranormal, hmmm. Covering all the bases, eh Chuck? Ed Stimpson --------------------------- Quoting Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com>:
I can barely see Orion, but it is there.
The streaks are clearly foreground objects. Probably too late in the season for insects though they still could be some tough hangers-on in the suburbs. Lots of warm nooks and crannies around houses. They could also be ash from a neighbor's fireplace or wood stove.
The streaks are not perfectly straight lines, one is even noticeably curved. And since Orion is in focus most of the time, but the streaks are not, it argues convincingly for foreground objects.
Either that or paranormal activity. [?]
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy < utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
The night of Nov. 26-27, I was sitting on my front porch testing my new iPhone. I wanted to see if it was sensitive enough to record the stars, and aiming near the Orion Nebula. Here is a sequence of eight images, all of them taken at 10:59 except that the last two were taken at 11. The juniper bush is bright because the flash went off for each frame. While I was shooting these I had the strong impression that something flashed down from in front and arched away to the left, sweeping up and then down. I wonder if it was a meteorite that skipped off the atmosphere. Only three frames of the eight show any of this. The one with the longest streak also is the least sharp, possibly because my hand jiggled as I was shooting -- it was pretty startling. I know the quality is crappy. I find that if I shrink the size of the screen that shows it, the quality doesn't seem quite as bad. Just click "download" and this should trigger your Windows Media Player (or whatever kind of video player your computer has) to play it. I would appreciate comments.
http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=6060
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Ed, my "paranormal" remark had a laugh-out-loud smiley next to it, but apparently the coding didn't survive some inboxes. Here's an old-fashioned emoticon that should suffice. ;-) On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 6:53 AM, Ed <utnatsedj1@xmission.com> wrote:
You nailed it Chuck, the streaks are foreground objects. I'd add that they were illuminated by ambient lighting, not the flash. If the flash had caught them, they would appear as bright, out-of-focus objects not as streaks.
Paranormal, hmmm. Covering all the bases, eh Chuck?
Ed Stimpson --------------------------- Quoting Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com>:
I can barely see Orion, but it is there.
The streaks are clearly foreground objects. Probably too late in the season for insects though they still could be some tough hangers-on in the suburbs. Lots of warm nooks and crannies around houses. They could also be ash from a neighbor's fireplace or wood stove.
The streaks are not perfectly straight lines, one is even noticeably curved. And since Orion is in focus most of the time, but the streaks are not, it argues convincingly for foreground objects.
Either that or paranormal activity. [?]
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 5:56 PM, Joe Bauman via Utah-Astronomy < utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> wrote:
The night of Nov. 26-27, I was sitting on my front porch testing my new
iPhone. I wanted to see if it was sensitive enough to record the stars, and aiming near the Orion Nebula. Here is a sequence of eight images, all of them taken at 10:59 except that the last two were taken at 11. The juniper bush is bright because the flash went off for each frame. While I was shooting these I had the strong impression that something flashed down from in front and arched away to the left, sweeping up and then down. I wonder if it was a meteorite that skipped off the atmosphere. Only three frames of the eight show any of this. The one with the longest streak also is the least sharp, possibly because my hand jiggled as I was shooting -- it was pretty startling. I know the quality is crappy. I find that if I shrink the size of the screen that shows it, the quality doesn't seem quite as bad. Just click "download" and this should trigger your Windows Media Player (or whatever kind of video player your computer has) to play it. I would appreciate comments.
http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=6060
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Wiggins Patrick