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Hi Chris,
I also wasn't questioning what you thought you have captured, for all I know it may be real. I just don't think it is what you think.
Let me address the issues I have with the picture
1. The trail brightening to a ball. If you look at the other pictures posted in this thread, this is what I would expect to see from a meteor trail, a progressive brightening until the meteor has burnt up. Yours doesn't look like this.
2. The other (non trailing) stars. Are very small for a 100mm scope and DSLR combo. I suggest that they may be hot pixels. Do you have a dark frame for the camera? Or they are dim stars and the data isn't stretched enough to show the trailing effect.
3. The wiggly tail. Agreed that meteors may spiral when they reach the atmosphere and encounter gas at different densities, but really the gas trail should be straight as in every other picture of meteors I've seen. Sorry but it looks like the mount moved and there was a bright star in the frame.
4. Your witnesses. I'm sure that you saw a meteor, and that it was roughly in the right place, but to know what your scope is seeing at the time you'd have to be peering through another. Which means it's impossible for you to have observed it naked eye. Your witnesses really can't tell exactly where your scope is pointing, the FOV of a 100mm scope is tiny.
I really hope it's real, because it'd be a great capture, but I'm unconvinced.
Post the raw data to an FTP type site so we can all have a look.
Cheers
Stuart
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