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Ubiquitous2024

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304 posts

8 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Pointed my drone into the sky. Saw nothing and wasn't expecting to see much. I just about saw the Plough constellation with the naked eye before launching. The only purpose was to see what the drone saw vs my naked eye.

Other than the billion stars which I am in awe of, I found an anomaly.

ISS I presume. But not sure. First image is the unedited pic, second is darkened.







Edited by Ubiquitous2024 on Sunday 1st December 01:25

slopes

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199 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Being sensible, i have no idea but i don't think it's the ISS, most likely Musk's Starlink

Ubiquitous2024

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Sunday 1st December 2024
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I didn't know the star link had a wide horizontal thing on it?

Simpo Two

88,401 posts

277 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Ubiquitous2024 said:
I didn't know the star link had a wide horizontal thing on it?
Solar panels are my guess. But if it's in orbit I'm surprised you can get that resolution.

Ubiquitous2024

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Sunday 1st December 2024
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Its not the ISS, we have looked it up and it was completely other side of the world.

slopes

40,421 posts

199 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Ubiquitous2024 said:
I didn't know the star link had a wide horizontal thing on it?
The only reason i suggest that is the second pic looks like a line of something, seeing as how starlink passed over us the other week, it looked kind og similar

Tony1963

5,574 posts

174 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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_Hoppers

1,461 posts

77 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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What was the shutter speed, it could be a satellite moving across the frame?

Ubiquitous2024

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304 posts

8 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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I had set it all at max, I can't remember the speed but want to saw it was at one of the scale. I moved all the settings to make it as bright as possible and to pick up as much as possible.

MesoForm

9,383 posts

287 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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_Hoppers said:
What was the shutter speed, it could be a satellite moving across the frame?
That would be my guess - shutter open for 1 second so a satellite would come out as a short bright line.

_Hoppers

1,461 posts

77 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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Ubiquitous2024 said:
I had set it all at max, I can't remember the speed but want to saw it was at one of the scale. I moved all the settings to make it as bright as possible and to pick up as much as possible.
The EXIF data will show yo the camera settings

Simpo Two

88,401 posts

277 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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'Setting it all to Max' has to be the photographer's version of this hehe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xgx4k83zzc&ab...