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Originally Posted by RB
You initially bumped the camera which registered the wobble but the stars/background hadn't registered yet on the long exposure.
Then the camera settled and you got the nice stars/background with a straight path for the rest of the meteor path.
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Thinking about it, the camera was well fixed, piggy backed on my scope on my NEQ6, using a timer and the brighter stars around M20 are round, so I'm pretty sure the dampening effect is real.
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Originally Posted by speach
When it first entered the atmosphere it wasn't round, so you would get a wobble then as it got further in the heat would burn off the projections and it would become round, the track would then settle down and not wobble. May be that's the answer.
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Sounds plausible.
Cheers
Bob