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Old 14-05-2006, 07:46 PM
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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'
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