Is this a meteor? If so...

Adobe Photoshop Acquisition Luminance Artifacts Deep Sky Galaxy M106 Messier Objects Meteor
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Larry Pizzi avatar
Larry Pizzi avatar

See attached jpeg.

This is a single 300 sec luminance frame from an imaging session of M106. It is highly cropped, stf stretched and converted to jpeg. The original is an xsif.

The streak in the original extends faintly all the way to the right edge of the frame. I am shooting for an LRGB image with a super luminance. I have another couple of nights to add integration.

I think it’s a meteor and would welcome any confirmation or refutation.

If it is, does anyone know a way to add it back into my final LRGB image?

I am using Pizinsight and Adobe Photoshop.

Many thanks!

Larry Pizzi

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andrea tasselli avatar
andrea tasselli avatar

unlikely

Tony Gondola avatar
Tony Gondola avatar

I would agree with Andrea. It has the basic form you’d expect from a meteor but the scale is tiny. Usually a trail like this would cross several degrees of sky. Catching sun glint off a rotating satellite is more likely.

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SonnyE avatar
SonnyE avatar

Having done meteor captures of the Perseid Meteor Showers and the occasion accidental catches, I’d say it has the shape, the lead and tail delineations, and the irregularity of something skidding on the Earth’s atmosphere it sure looks meteoric to me.

I would just set it aside and not try to include it in your objects file.

Satellites do not have the taper in and taper out of a meteor. They are a distinct white line because they are reflecting the Sun constantly, not skidding on the atmosphere.

So in my experienced opinion I say, Good Catch!

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Brian Puhl avatar
Brian Puhl avatar

Tumbling satellite, usually old rocket boosters and such

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