Picture I took tonight of an unidentified object
 

All exif data is attached to the original of this picture for examination from interested parties.

It has a half second exposure on a small, hand held Olympus camera. I was trying to take pictures of the house at night time (we have new lights on the windows) and saw this smallish (finger nail at arms length) green/yellow object slowly drifting over head. It stopped dead for about ten seconds, and then appeared to switch all its illumination off. I then lost it to the naked eye.

http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/9494/ufoss8.jpg

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That's crazy egg if it floated then stopped and vanished.It appears to have some sort of structure to it around the illuminated 'halo'.

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Yeah it did to the naked eye too. It was like it was all lit up underneath - beautiful to look at, with the creamy light having that green to it.

I only managed to get the longer exposure because it halted overhead - had it of been moving the picture would of been smeary.

Oh and if I use software to alter the contrast / brightness, there is a definate inner structure to it - even in the original you can see the defined six sided shape in the centre.
If you need me to, I can post a more defined version.

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Try a couple of edited versions like with curves and filters then repost them?

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Nice!, I agree with A, that it looks like some structure in the middle.

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Just made the black stand out a bit more so we can see the six sided shape in the centre, and that strange triangular shape in the middle.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/2323/1ufoew6.jpg

Theres certainly something in the centre of the light that looks like a very purposeful structure.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/355/ufo3sj7.jpg

Lit up one layer, played with the darkness in another, merged the two so that you can see both the inner and outer detail at once.

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WOW!

A Star Egg?

love to all

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The structure inside looks like the inside of the object in the footage of the traingle object video.
http://www.incahoots.tv/features/200...rts1/video.htm

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The picture is from a really small compact camera and with a 20 mm focal length - what that means is that there is no zooming in at all on it - the original picture shows the object very clearly albeit smallish.

Had i of had the bigger zoom camera out tonight the mind boggles at what i could of captured!

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You could have done with my D300 with the 500mm plus 1.4 teleconverter mate or my MEADE 8 inch reflector scope-why don't i ever see these-probably because i'm on here all the time!!lol.

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that is interesting

once, i had merlin visit

and, i took pictures

i wish i knew how to post them

i got a series of 3 shots

(maybe, if i sent them to wayne / antletrinagle)

he can post them

since, they are similiar

love
susan
the eXchanger

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500mm lense? I wouldn't of been able to hold it stable enough! and I would of had a bright yellow / creamy picture for you all to look at and go 'that blokes a nutter! OI! nutter! no!'

8 inch scope and a T ring conveter would be awesome for those little lights I keep seeing on the moon though.

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Yeah eigg i have to get worm gears eq. mount and wedge, barlow lens may get an autostar tracker and all of the above someday!!lol.Got the scope and a T- mount for the Nikons.

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Wowser, what i wouldn't do for a nice nikon and an 8 inch scope to do a proper job on the moon - theres some really interesting activity on the surface with flashes and weird lights crossing the face and over the edges in the last month.

Dammit, I knew I should of paid for a camera and scope!:lmao:

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Egg,you're on my wavelength i know they aren't necessities but it's always been my passion photg. and astronomy from a child-i only recently,(a couple of years ago) got some gear together.I have to sort a hartman mask out on the meade also-to line it in.

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http://rao.150m.com/Focusaid.html

Do it yourself mask.

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Yeah thanks for that i have to make one three holes etc piece of card-i'll have to get round to it lol.

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Nice picture, Egg.

I swear that I've seen odd things in the sky but I never have a camera handy whenever this happens.

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As it was it was sheer chance. The wife installed these new lights in the window and wanted a picture of them, hence why iw as outside at that moment.

Am going to have to invest in a better camera too!