Chris,
Coming from someone who has also taken a picture of a meteor through a telescope I know what you are going through right now. You feel amazingly good for what you have done (seeing a shooting star gets you 1 wish. photographing it through a telescope? that's got to be at least 100 wishes). At the same time you have people telling you its not real. I dealt with the same thing with my picture. There is overwhelming evidence that my picture is in fact a meteor and not a plane, but some people still want to believe what they want to believe.
I looked at your picture and I don't understand how one star could have trails but not all the others. I'm a novice but that explanation doesn't make sense to me. Congratulations on doing this. I know what it feels like to be doubted.
Stuart, my picture is a little different of a situation because 1) the mason dixon meteor was a very big fireball/bolide, it lit up the entire sky brighter than the full moon and made a sonic boom 2) the distance in my picture was roughly 16.5 miles away at 12km altitude after the moment of fragmentation. Most meteors are the size of a grain of rice and burn out at 100km altitude. I'm not an expert about astro photos and I really don't understand your technical explanation, mostly because I'm not familiar with the procedures you reference.
I'm not trying to get in the middle of a debate being this is my first post and everything. I'm just trying to add a little info about the picture that was referenced on this post.
Thanks,
Mike Hankey
http://www.mikesastrophotos.com