The Cellar - View Single Post - August 14th, 2014: Comet Swift-Tuttle.

glatt · 08-15-2014, 08:14 AM

The comet part was a much shorter exposure, or it would be making a long curved trail too, parallel with the star trails. Comets are basically fixed points in the sky like stars, not to be confused with meteors, which are fast.

Edit: And those star trails look about 3 hours long to me.

08-15-2014, 08:14 AM	#6
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	The comet part was a much shorter exposure, or it would be making a long curved trail too, parallel with the star trails. Comets are basically fixed points in the sky like stars, not to be confused with meteors, which are fast. Edit: And those star trails look about 3 hours long to me.