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Possible meteor trail in flame nebula, Hermann Klingele

Possible meteor trail in flame nebula

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)
Possible meteor trail in flame nebula, Hermann Klingele

Possible meteor trail in flame nebula

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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Single 60s exposure used for setting up imaging on the flame nebula shows a short rainbow-style trail which I think could be created by a meteor since airplane lights or satellites behave different. regarding track, style and color. Internet says that non-straight meteor trails happen (in about 1% of meteor sightings), either zig-zag-style or sinusoidal, and coloring also matches that of pictures I found on the Internet.

Since there are a few single hot pixels visible in the image, I first thought that this might be a larger sensor failure because of the relatively sharp colored pixels; but with a very short timeframe of the meteor event (small grain, few milliseconds?) that would be possible to have that sharp edges as seeing blur would not have a chance.

Any other ideas what that rainbow arc could be?

P.S.: Please ignore the optical quality, I made beginner's re-assembling mistakes by fastening screws to hard on primary and diagonal, resulting in astigmatism and coma

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Possible meteor trail in flame nebula, Hermann Klingele