Possible meteor captured in 180 second exposure frame

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JayBac avatar

I think this is a meteor I captured in a 180 second frame for IC63 the Ghost of Cassiopeia. I want to be sure before I include it in my Astrophoto.

meteor.jpg

What exactly did I capture here?

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Andre Vilhena avatar

It’s a meteor allright! :)

Tony Gondola avatar

I vote meteor, it looks pretty classic.

JayBac avatar

My plan is to add it into my 20 hour integration. This is the process I am using in PixInsight.

  1. Separate the stars and the meteor out of the single sub using star-x

  2. Stretch that with Seti-astro Star Stretch tool.

  3. Add that sub to the larger stack.

  4. Blend the new stars only image with the starless image.

It works but the stars seem a bit overdone and the comet a little under done.

Any suggestions?