Hi everyone, I noticed something weird while reviewing my night sky timelapse. Each frame had a 30-second exposure with just a 1-second interval between them, and I was shooting at ISO 6400. In one frame — specifically frame 19 — a bright orb-like object suddenly appeared. What’s strange is that it wasn’t there in frame 18 or 20, which were taken just before and after with the exact same settings.
The object looks solid and bright with no visible trail or movement, which made me rule out a satellite, plane, or meteor. It just popped up and vanished after that single frame. This was captured in Mindanao, Philippines, sometime around 8:24pm I used only my smartphone on a tripod — no lens or filter attached.
I’m really curious what this could be — maybe some kind of camera sensor anomaly or something else? If anyone has insight or has seen something similar, I’d appreciate your thoughts.
Camera used: Redmi 10c
30 seconds
Iso 6400
Interval: 1
Location: Mindanao Philippines
Time: 8:24pm
Pointing at South East
Note: If you can to view all of my raw images you can view it from this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15a5BFxOPp-MgIdtkCSE9VgkDMH34zx80
by theguy_75742
4 Comments
What time is between frames, and how u notice that?
knowing the time we can think of how fast shoud that be
it could have been a meteor pointed towards the camera but I’m not sure.
Unfortunately, I think we have literally no way of possibly identifying what this is in this case. Unless it is actually a satellite or plane and someone is able to track it down
Definitely interesting. Maybe people in r/Astronomy are more competent to give possible explanations. 30 second exposure and no apparent movement. Must have been a short blip then or maybe a hot pixel of your camera sensor, considering that you had only 1 second delay between the shots, which probably means that your camera didn’t applied a dark frame to remove hot pixels.