Beautiful pics WayAboveTS and welcome to ATS. I really don't know anything about cameras, so I can't be of any technical service. However, how much time between the shots? Also of interest to me is the bright flash like thing at the top.

This appears to be a fake. Your "anomaly" has colors around it, while the original image is black and white. The so-called anomaly was probably added later.

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I don't see it, what are we looking for?

Originally posted by Neiby
This appears to be a fake. Your "anomaly" has colors around it, while the original image is black and white. The so-called anomaly was probably added later.

[edit on 20-3-2008 by Neiby]

I also don't believe these photo's were taken with a 300mm camera lens. A 300mm lens only has about 4.5X magnification. The detail in the photo's would need around 400X magnification to resolve. Just my opinion.

Guys, the picture definitely isn't fake. It was taken in colour and with the exact same camera and lens that i stated. I didn't use a tripod which may explain why its not the best quality.

For those of you that cant see it, just look between the 6-7 o'clock area on the picture and you will see a small blueish light.

I'm not claiming this to be some kind of major event....i myself thinks its probably a satellite or something but i just thought i'd ask your opinions.

That's a lovely picture nataylor.

Please note, these are all the same shot.

Those of you that think it wasn't taken with a 300mm lens are probably never heard of cropping a digital image.

Originally posted by WayAboveTopSecret
Hi all, i'm new here but just wanted to share a few pictures i have with you all.

Could be a satellite or a camera reflection.

Guys, the images i put up here are all the same image but i just messed about with the brightness a little to make the anomaly more visable. I've got some other pictures from the same shoot that i will put up for you all asap. Many thanks.

Ok, here are three pictures that show the anomaly in different places. To me it looks like whatever its is, is orbiting the moon.

Please note: i did a 'quick fix' on these pictures just to brighten them a little because the originals are a little dark.






The pictures were taken about 30 seconds apart.

The pictures were taken about 30 seconds apart.

I can post the originals if you like but i thought i would save everybody the hassle of having to enhance the images so you can see the anomaly a little better. Thanks again.

[edit on 21-3-2008 by Jbird]

I have studied your pictures at some length this afternoon and after disecting and resizing them I have come to my conclusion...

That is a watermelon painted to look like Luna.

J/K Nice pics, that's a pretty good camera

'That is a watermelon painted to look like Luna.'

Sorry could you elaborate on that a little..i think that went a little over my head.

WATS, it really looks like a burned pixel (or sometimes called "hot pixels" or "dead pixels"). Sometimes on Digital SLRs, particularly when shooting at night, certain spots on the camera's sensor will register activity, even when there is not any.

So, for example, I recently did some night shots in my neighborhood to try capturing light trails as cars drove by. When I got back inside and started processing the the RAW files, I noticed a few small red and blue dots in almost all of the photos. Zooming in, it looked just like a small cluster of red pixels and a small cluster of blue pixels (well, a few clusters, really). I did some digging, and it turns out that sometimes the camera sensor fouls up a tiny tiny bit (this is not that hard to imagine, considering how sensitive those sensors are).

Anyway, so it ends up that I have a few spots on my sensor that always register activity (i.e., "expose" like on film), regardless of whether there is activity or not. A way to test it (and this is what I did) is to put your lens cap on, put your shutter speed on 10-30 seconds, do whatever you want with aperture, and take a shot. Then, look at your image on your computer screen. If you have some burned pixels (which most shooters outside of a 1DS MIII will), you'll notice them easily as the tiny colored spots on an otherwise black image. They will always be there, but they'll tend to only show up on slower shutter speeds and/or in very low-light shots.

The one thing that bugs me about this, though, is that it seems to move with the moon in your pics...

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