Originally posted by justyc
yes the object was stationary in the sky for the time i observed it. i went to sleep at 1.am and it was still there then.

Then it cannot be a satellite...
Its too bright to be a whether balloon. I've no more guesses to offer

hmm.

Those Venus comparison pictures don't look right.
Perhaps you have photographed Jupiter instead?
What time were those taken on the second night?

I only ask, because I'm seeing hints of the moons of Jupiter.
Those smaller streaks..I believe those are galilean moons.
Which are easily photographable, with a short exposure time, of just a couple of seconds. TO be sure, you can go out again, and take more photos. Those objects will be in different locations, relative to the central object.

Which then leads me to directions.
Are you positive you have your directions correct?

Interesting photo's Thanks for posting.

The first three images are cropped from your shots. I wanted to compare them to known images of night launches. The last two are known images of launches from NASA.

As some one mentioned earlier the digital zoom creates issues. The first (upper) of the two known images I used a method of resizing probably similar to what your camera does and enlarged by an equal amount to your shot. The bottom image I used a much better method of resizing to show how superior it is to what is done inside the camera. It is generally better to enlarge in software and leave the digital zoom off.

What I did to these is use a channel mixer to remove some of the blue channel (the hottest portion of a flame) and increase the reds (the cooler portions of a flame) to give me something to compare with the known photo's to see if we are looking at a flame or a flare. From the results you see below I'd say what you shot is indeed from combustion.

This still does not identify what you shot other than to say it could have been a rocket of some sort or something burning up from friction. Because the shape does not seem to match that of a rocket engine, I suspect the later.







Known launch images below-





Whatever you took these photo's of there would appear to be a great deal of heat involved.

If it were a launch, why would it persist in the same spot in the sky for several hours. Saturn is more southerly and higher from the horizon than Venus.
If Venus is in the center of a clock face, Saturn is at 10 o'clock.

[edit on 6/16/2007 by roadgravel]

Originally posted by spacedoubt
hmm.

Those Venus comparison pictures don't look right.
Perhaps you have photographed Jupiter instead?
What time were those taken on the second night?
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Which then leads me to directions.
Are you positive you have your directions correct?

jupiter was in the opposite direction in the sky to the object at the time and i know it was venus and not jupiter that i photgraphed because i had already checked for what should have been visible in the sky and where it should be before i posted here. i also know which directions i mean when i say north and south etc (unless my tom tom gps 'north' direction arrow is inaccurate which i doubt).

thanks for the photo analysis Blaine91555 - much appreciated. so you conclude that the object was solid and very hot. its still baffling though as it remained stationary for over an hour and not in the right place or the right time for it to have been the 'known' rocket launches.

I dunno how much the camera was shaken...
Seems to me that the light-rays - are some sort of reflection in the lens of the camera.
But im not sure of that either.

It looks - REALLY HOT.. like warm.. I wouldn't touch that thing - ect.

Seems like it have a solid shape - because some of it is to square to be natural created..
But again - That can be the result of the camera shake.. But if you used a tripod - then I dunno what to say - It does not look like a star..

These photos are very interresting.

Originally posted by Ram

I dunno how much the camera was shaken...
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.. But if you used a tripod - then I dunno what to say - It does not look like a star..

i not only used a tripod but set it onto a two second timer to take the picture so i wasn't even touching the camera at the time so there would be no shake on it.

it didn't look like that with the naked eye though - it just looked like a very very bright star - brighter than venus which was in the south-west, which is what caught my eye and why i thought i would photograph it. it was only on viewing the pictures that the odd shape appeared - that didn't even show up on the viewfinder when i zoomed in on the object (the camera auto focuses itself when it takes the actual picture so it wasn't taken as full zoom).

however, the venus pictures show the camera can see round nature of the planet, whereas this object is definately not round.

i was hoping there may be some people in the ufo forum who may have heard of or know if someone else saw anything odd on the night of the 14th and reported it to try and narrow down what it could have been.