Continued from Spad's Moonshot...
Posted 16/01/2024 - 23:06
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These are a lot better than you think!!!
Is that the ISS???
Is that the ISS???
The Legendary Terry Pratchett once said:
At the beginning there was nothing... which exploded
At the beginning there was nothing... which exploded
Posted 16/01/2024 - 23:09
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I like these. Bluetiful images.
C.O.L.B.A.S victim
(Compulsive Obsessive Lens Buying Addiction Syndrome)
What you need are lenses, more lenses, bigger lenses, better lenses, faster lenses, vintage lenses and when you have these, your pictures will be perfect!
(Compulsive Obsessive Lens Buying Addiction Syndrome)
What you need are lenses, more lenses, bigger lenses, better lenses, faster lenses, vintage lenses and when you have these, your pictures will be perfect!
Posted 16/01/2024 - 23:57
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Spad wrote:
These are a lot better than you think!!!
Is that the ISS???
These are a lot better than you think!!!
Is that the ISS???
No Spad...i've seen the ISS many times although never taken any images of it. It moves relatively slow though...takes about a minute to
travel from one horizon to the next and is very bright often. These 'craft' traveled the diameter of the moon in about 2-3 seconds. I've caught a total of three different but similar 'craft' but they differ in colour from each other...either clay coloured or off white.
Also I missed another one or two which traveled too fast to get and they were in a loose formation like military jets.
Posted 17/01/2024 - 00:07
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More images...
1. originally labelled this Anomaly 1
2. Above image cropped
3. Anomaly 2
4. Crop of above
1. originally labelled this Anomaly 1
2. Above image cropped
3. Anomaly 2
4. Crop of above
Posted 17/01/2024 - 00:27
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More than likely satellites??!!
The Legendary Terry Pratchett once said:
At the beginning there was nothing... which exploded
At the beginning there was nothing... which exploded
Posted 17/01/2024 - 08:09
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Most likely low Earth orbit satellites. There has been a massive proliferation of these e.g. SpaceX's Starlink constellations which are often seen in a group. I've lost count of the number of satellites I've seen. Some like the now defunct Iridium constellation give a brief bright 'flare' glint as their large solar panels act as a mirror for sunlight.
Mike
Mike
Posted 17/01/2024 - 10:30
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Nice pics!
Pity about the amount of hardware that's floating around out there and getting in the way of a pristine view of the cosmos. Of course, it might not all be of human or earthly origin...
Steve
Pity about the amount of hardware that's floating around out there and getting in the way of a pristine view of the cosmos. Of course, it might not all be of human or earthly origin...
Steve
Posted 17/01/2024 - 11:03
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I did consider possibility of satellites at the time and even did a cursory check of the main overflights on some app at the time (May 201 but didn't come up with anything.
But the main reason i discounted satellites was the movement of one of these...a pink/clay coloured one I labelled Anomaly 3 which appears in the following images in the middle of the Moon's disk...this one was basically hovering over the same general area but making short jagged 'jumps' for want of a better description in a seemingly random pattern. I had to keep manually adjusting the telescope to keep the Moon centrered in my camera viewfinder and lost this one briefly...when I regained the same position again it had disappeared. It seemed to be interacting close to the surface of the Moon...for that to be the case it must have been huge.
Also the sheer speed of these others and the slightly curved deviation from a straight line at the extreme right of the viewfinder before they flew out of my FOV. My 'gut' feeling at the time was that these were being actively controlled 'piloted' if you like rather than merely following a course.
1. Anomalies overall perspective...three of them.
2. Anomaly 3 200% crop
3. Anomalies 1 and 3 at 100% crop
That's it folks...all i've got!
Regardless of what you might all be thinking...isn't it amazing that it's possible to capture images like these with equipment costing a few hundred pounds?!
But the main reason i discounted satellites was the movement of one of these...a pink/clay coloured one I labelled Anomaly 3 which appears in the following images in the middle of the Moon's disk...this one was basically hovering over the same general area but making short jagged 'jumps' for want of a better description in a seemingly random pattern. I had to keep manually adjusting the telescope to keep the Moon centrered in my camera viewfinder and lost this one briefly...when I regained the same position again it had disappeared. It seemed to be interacting close to the surface of the Moon...for that to be the case it must have been huge.
Also the sheer speed of these others and the slightly curved deviation from a straight line at the extreme right of the viewfinder before they flew out of my FOV. My 'gut' feeling at the time was that these were being actively controlled 'piloted' if you like rather than merely following a course.
1. Anomalies overall perspective...three of them.
2. Anomaly 3 200% crop
3. Anomalies 1 and 3 at 100% crop
That's it folks...all i've got!
Regardless of what you might all be thinking...isn't it amazing that it's possible to capture images like these with equipment costing a few hundred pounds?!
Posted 17/01/2024 - 11:05
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Date mentioned above is May 2018...tried to edit it but insisted in substituting the smilie for the '8' !
Posted 17/01/2024 - 12:48
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Lubbyman wrote:
Nice pics!
Pity about the amount of hardware that's floating around out there and getting in the way of a pristine view of the cosmos. Of course, it might not all be of human or earthly origin...
Steve
Nice pics!
Pity about the amount of hardware that's floating around out there and getting in the way of a pristine view of the cosmos. Of course, it might not all be of human or earthly origin...
Steve
Steve....
It's and effing junkyard oop there!!! When doing long exposure DSO photography, sometimes there can be 6 to 8 streaks across a single image genereated by the damn things!!
Will humanity ever stop polluting everywhere we go with crap....
MikeInDevon wrote:
Most likely low Earth orbit satellites. There has been a massive proliferation of these e.g. SpaceX's Starlink constellations which are often seen in a group. I've lost count of the number of satellites I've seen. Some like the now defunct Iridium constellation give a brief bright 'flare' glint as their large solar panels act as a mirror for sunlight.
Mike
Most likely low Earth orbit satellites. There has been a massive proliferation of these e.g. SpaceX's Starlink constellations which are often seen in a group. I've lost count of the number of satellites I've seen. Some like the now defunct Iridium constellation give a brief bright 'flare' glint as their large solar panels act as a mirror for sunlight.
Mike
If it was up to me, I'd strap Musk to one of his rockets, and launch the odious turd in to the sun.
Probably do the same with Bezos and his giant flying penis!!
The Legendary Terry Pratchett once said:
At the beginning there was nothing... which exploded
At the beginning there was nothing... which exploded
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I initially labelled these as 'anomalies' on the brief exposure i gave them at the time, but in view of recent official announcements
from governments concerning unidentified aerial phenomena imaged here on Earth, I feel these are probably a small part of the official coverup concerning human activity on the Moon and throughout the wider Solar System.
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2. Crop of image above
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4. Crop of above image
More images to follow.
Karlo