[Chaos-l] FW: What Is This

[Tony Rice]

There were a couple dozen satellites and spent rocket bodies that
passed through that region on that night, so that might explain it.
Joe's suggestion that it could simply be lens flare is a good one as
well.  The flattened side to that spot on the image does look very
lens-flarey (to coin a word).

Going with the satellite theory.... based on position of Jupiter,
Venus and the spot in question in the photo and assuming the trees in
the photo indicate that it was pretty low in the sky, I'm going to
guess it was taken around 9:21 pm and the spot is a spent Chinese Long
March 2D rocket bod.  That would also fit the dimness of the object
(didn't see it with his naked eye).

The only thing that doesn't fit is the motion described below, but I'm
not sure that's good info to go on here.  If it was visible only in
the still photograph and not with the naked eye, motion shouldn't be
apparent. .8 sec isn't going to produce enough motion blur to produce
clues to the direction of travel in the photo.

my $.02
Tony

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Sorrell, Mickey Jo
<sorrell at email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> CHAOS folks,
> A friend sent me this photo he took of Jupiter and Venus on March 13
> (Asheville area). He is curious about the object just below center, which
> appeared in several, but not all, of his photos taken over about five
> minutes. The "UFO" moved slowly down from the top of the photo. He didn't
> see it with his naked eye - only in the photos (exposure .8 seconds with an
> f-stop of 6.3).
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Mickey Jo Sorrell
>
>
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