Hello i wanted to post this here not because I think it is a UFO or something like that. But I am posting it cause i would figure it would interest a lot of you guys. I took two photos while messing around with long exposures on my camera. These photos were taken 9 minutes apart same angle. Clouds are different and one photo has a weird light that swoops in and bounces around right next to the brightest star. I have no explanation of what this is. Has anyone else captured this?
Time: 11:19-11:28
Location: Charlotte, NC
by onefast536
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I know it wasn’t me moving the camera on accident while the exposure was happening cause if that was so all of the other lights in the photo would do the same. My friend who also does Astro photography in NC has seen the same lights before. I really don’t know what it could be.
Interesting yeah camera slightly moved, but it’s still interesting cause it’s different than the stars.
The brightest “star” is actually the planet Jupiter. Above Jupiter are the bright stars Pollux and Castor, while off to the left is Procyon.
I would guess that the “moving” object is a lens flare produced by Jupiter. The trailing streak implies that the camera moved slightly during the exposure, but i don’t know why in that case Jupiter and the stars do not also shows signs of a motion streak (they do appear as straight lines due to Earth’s rotation).