wassit?

[mickoking]

G,day

On the 3rd of september 1997 I was taking short unguided photo's of the sky in Capricornus to capture Jupiter and Uranus in the same shot (50mm lens, 20 sec exposue, Kodak gold 400). I took 2 shots in the same area seperated by approx 5 mins. When I got the photo's back one of the prints had a 'new star' on it , I thought it was a supernova , I was excited. I showed the images to an Astronomer at perth observatory and he claimed it was a Cosmic ray flash.

What do you guys think? its co ordinates are 21h 13.6', -17 46'

[33South]

what about a head-on Capricornid ?

[Lester]

Very interesting,

What is a cosmic ray flash?

Looks like it was reasonabley bright.

[ballaratdragons]

Was it still there hours, days, weeks later?

That may then answer it.

[mickoking]

It only appeared on one neg, I believe it was only a flash.

[[1ponders]]

Don't they make you jump when you find one Micko. Gets the heart pounding when you come across something like that when you aren't expecting to see anything in that particular spot. Need a bex and a good lie down after something like that :lol: (If you don't know ask your mother :lol: )

[ballaratdragons]

And if you have no Bex, a Vincents will do! :thumbsup:

Geez we're getting old Paul

[mickoking]

I've settled down now :rofl:

[jjjnettie]

You need to wash the Bex/Vincents down with a Coke to get the full benefit.:lol: