[AZ-Observing] Re: Phantom and Flare

Stan, I think that may be the Moth Man!

It was obviously glowing as it flew over to the telescope.

Jeff

At 12:38 -0700 06/19/2007, Stan Gorodenski wrote:
>ketelsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>>Hi All-
>>
>>Was looking over my shots from the Canyon and saw that the Grand Canyon
>>Phantom (high school sports mascot) made an appearance at the star party!
>>This is a totally unmanipulated shot other than some slight levels
>>adjustment and a slight crop.  It is from a several-hour series of
>>40-second exposures taken every 90 seconds, taken near Dennis Young's
>>scope.  Who knew such creatures exist...
>>
>>http://alice.as.arizona.edu/~ketelsen/Phantom.jpg
>>
>>
>
>Interesting creature. I imagine the conventional interpretation is that
>someone, a human, walked over to the telescope in the image with a red
>light. The waviness of the streak is the bob in their walk. However, it
>is obvious that the 'someone' behind the telescope that did the walking
>is not human, but instead is some strange as yet unknown creature.
>Although we don't know much about this strange creature, we now know
>that it likes to participate in star parties and is considerate enough
>to do so with a red light.
>Stan
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