Its a cleer night so i went out to try and see if i could get a good picture of the stars ... but obviously i couldnt... damn camera! Anyways, i "captured" something in one of my photos... Not sure if its a shooting star or what.. I cant really tell, but when you look up closely at it, it looks kinda cool...

Original photo (i know, horrible!):
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b186/DLL2/thing1.jpg

Digitally zoomed up:
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b186/DLL2/thing2.jpg

What is it?

Either a glitch or Voyager 1..

U.F.O???

look like transportation

It could also be something that was on your sensor or lens ;)

Here in China they load up their kites with leds and fly them at night. Maybe one has got away?

whoops, double post

May I ask what you were shooting in the first place?

For 8" and F2.8, it's strange that the pic is totally black. One way to find out is to adjust the curve in PS.

May I ask what you were shooting in the first place?

For 8" and F2.8, it's strange that the pic is totally black. One way to find out is to adjust the curve in PS.
How do I do that?

And BTW. I was shooting with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-LZ2...

1) Ctrl+M or Image | Adjustments | Curves... in PhotoShop
2) Click on the curve and pull it upwards as shown below.
http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/5813/untitled23vg.jpg

Were you shooting a dark sky with a few stars, handheld? It could be a star but appeared like a shooting star due to camera shake even though your cam might have anti-shake technology.

the first one is either a dead pixel or hot pixel.
You should run a dead pixel test program.
Seems like you have a few.

I think Mork was returning from Ork in his giant egg. Do you live near Boulder, Colorado?

Were you shooting a dark sky with a few stars, handheld? It could be a star but appeared like a shooting star due to camera shake even though your cam might have anti-shake technology.
I was shooting at a dark sky with MANY stars, and i had it on a tripod.

probably just a passing by satellite, at what time did you shoot the picture?, ussually low orbit satellites (including Hubble and the Space Station) can be seen in the early morning before the sunrise and early evening during sunset and around one hour later

I was shooting at a dark sky with MANY stars, and i had it on a tripod.

on timer or remote as well? There'll be slight motion blur if you press the shutter (even though the camera is on a tripod).

Okay. I see there were many small stars when I adjusted the curve. Don't think is a dead pixel. However, at wide angle of 37mm and so dark, is not quite possible to tell what it is, so far away.

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/9398/thing16lv.jpg

probably just a passing by satellite, at what time did you shoot the picture?, ussually low orbit satellites (including Hubble and the Space Station) can be seen in the early morning before the sunrise and early evening during sunset and around one hour later
Well I took the picture at around 11:30 at night...

on timer or remote as well? There'll be slight motion blur if you press the shutter (even though the camera is on a tripod).
I had it on a 2 second timer, to make sure that i wouldnt shake or blur the picture :)

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