Re: [APML] M31 With Aurora (or is it light struck film)

["Mike Leitch" <mdleitch@adelphia.net>]

Thom,

I concur with Jason, light leak.
I had an almost identical result a few years ago while shooting M8. Same red
"pillars" in one area like your friends.
I ended up blaming it on a red flashlight. It happened just after I started
using N2 purge on my OM's and my purge hose was a clear hose.
Must have hit it with the red flashlight....????.....Anyway, I painted the
hose flat black and have never had it happen again.
Just my single experiance for what its worth.

Mike Leitch
mdleitch@adelphia.net
http://users.adelphia.net/~mdleitch/home/astropho.htm


----- Original Message -----
From: "Thom Iwancio" <tiwancio@sc.rr.com>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 6:53 PM
Subject: [APML] M31 With Aurora (or is it light struck film)


> This is from one of my observing partners.  He took it on Kodak HD film
> the night we had a good Aurora he in South Carolina.  He says he didn't
> see anything visually but with a 60 minute exposure it wouldn't take
> much.  Or maybe his film was light struck somehow.  Anyway, you be the
> judge.
>
> http://www.minorplanetsearch.com/genes_work/gene_m31.html
>
> BTW, another one of my partners watched the 10/30 display until he could
> detect no more activity.  He spent the rest of the night imaging the
> Heart and Soul Nebulas and when he got the slides back they were totally
> washed out with residual Aurora undetectable to the naked eye so I guess
> anything is possible.
>
> Thom Iwancio
> Elgin, SC
> www.machunter.org
> home.sc.rr.com/thomiwancio
>
>
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