Justfolk

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Posted: 03 Apr 2016


Taken: 27 Mar 2016

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30 sec. f/2.0 23.0 mm ISO 400

FUJIFILM FinePix X100

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Stars, a plane, and something else.

Stars, a plane, and something else.
I took this picture one night a week ago. It's a thirty-second
exposure of the sky, thirty seconds because, even though I knew I
would get star movement, it's the easy long-shutter-speed to choose
with the Fuji X100 camera.

It is looking at the SW sky a couple of hours after sunset. There was
a plane starting to drop towards Torbay airport, about 100 km to the
SE. It cruised across the image for almost fifteen seconds -- you can
count its one-second flashes of the wingtip and tail lights, looking
like three-toed animal tracks, and as well see for a few seconds the
steady lights on the fuselage. Unlike the stars, of course, the
flashing lights of the airplane don't show any sidelong motion.

Much less obvious in the image than the plane's lights are some other
sharp marks: about a half-dozen short lines all moving in the same
direction (from upper right to lower left) and all ending in a
brighter light. The easiest to see is immediately below the centre of
the airplane's bright unbroken lines: make a rough equilateral
triangle down from the steady lines and look at its apex. The others
are the same length and sharpness and all have a bright spot at the
end; they seem scattered through the image. I am completely puzzled as
to their nature. When I saw the first, I thought "Meteorite!" but
having five or six identical ones puts the boots to that theory.

Because all of them are so similar, differing in brightness only, they
may be each a separate reflection of one thing, but I cannot figure
out what.

Got any ideas?

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 Justfolk
Justfolk club
Cloned aliens, moving in lock-step. . .
8 years ago.
 Justfolk
Justfolk club
Someone suggested it is camera shake, and I'm inclined to believe that -- a very quick bit of shake that was quick enough to burn in the images of the brightest stars and nothing of the weakest ones.
8 years ago.
 Justfolk
Justfolk club
I think it may be twenty-five years since I last carried my tripod to take a picture!

Sheer laziness. . . .
8 years ago. Edited 8 years ago.
 Sylvain Wiart
Sylvain Wiart
camera shake, only visible on the most shiny & static objects !
8 years ago.
 Justfolk
Justfolk club
Sylvain, thanks for the notes identifying things!
8 years ago.

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