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Old 29-08-2015, 11:46 AM
bobbyf (Bob)
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Damped sinusoid meteor

During the ASSA Alpana Astrocamp, I managed to capture the start of a meteor hitting our atmosphere.
At the time I remember seeing it and thought I may have caught it.
When I reviewed the image at home, I noticed that the start looked wobbly and so I stretched it a bit and zoomed in to see an oscillation, which appears to dampen into a straight line.
At first i thought I'd knocked the camera, but the stars are OK.
Is this commonly understood to occur and seen regularly in images?
I've never seen or heard of this effect before.
Cheers

I was doing high ISO, short exposures at the time, getting position and focus right, hence the noise
Regards

Bob
Equipment used was an old 200mm F4 Nikkor lens on a Nikon D7000.
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