Help required please

[Steve_C]

Hi all,

I took this shot recently near Batemans Bay, NSW. 5 min exposure, 24mm lens on a Nikon D300. I do not understand why the sky is blown out. Is it sky fog? It was a good ds location, but if I shone a powerful torch into the sky I could see the beam. If I tried this length of exposure on my barn door I suspect I would get the same issue.

On another note, I have tried to locate the satellite as shown by the streaks but have had no luck. Image was shot at 19:45 on 2/10/15. I don't think it was an aircraft, my aircradft tracking s/w shows no aircraft at that time, although not all aircraft show up.

TIA

Steve

[leon]

Steve I do expect it is sky fog and the fact that it was fogged as you suggested with the torch beam, would have made it a little worse, also i think those two streaks of light you mention is an aircraft.
Others may have an other opinion

Leon:thumbsup:

[glend]

Looking at the rotation it would appear your pointed south,south, east. It's not unusual to get a sky fog which can transmit skyglow. Are there any major light sources in that direction, if you eere nrth of Batemans Bay it coud well be skyglow from the town.

[RB]

ISO 1600 @ f/2.8 for 5 min, manual white balance !
It can use some Processing and colour balancing.
Try "Daylight" white balance or whatever the equivalent for Nikon is.

Just a quick example attached to show what's there.

RB

:)

[speach]

Pretty certain it's not a satellite very likely a plane. Looking at it there would be 2 satellites side by side in the same orbit.

[Steve_C]

Facing a little bit e of s, abt 3k to the nearest major light source to the sth, Batemans Bay abt 5k north of this loc. There is a group of houses abt 300 mtrs nth of where I was, but no visible lights from them that I could see.

I'm not sure how far from any light source I need to be.

Steve

[Steve_C]

That's what I figured, but it doesn't show up on any of my a/c tracking s/w. could have been military as they don't show.

Steve

[Steve_C]

It was shot on daylight wb, I just posted the raw file to get opinions, I have done a fair bit of post on it, it is surprising what can be done.

[bkm2304]

Two satellites are possible. The flare is interesting and the trail is almost dead polar. Maybe something in orbit? I wouldn't dispel the possibility. And it certainly isn't behaving like a plane's lights.

I once saw 4 - yes 4 - satellites deployed from a polar orbit. Two each parallel to each other as they deployed and went their separate ways.

I reported it here (http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/showthread.php?t=84287) .

Richard.

[Steve_C]

That's why I don't think it is an aircraft. The track is wrong and off a standard airway, it was a 24mm lens so the spacing is too wide for an a/c. It was a 5 minute exp, so one after the other maybe?

An intriguing mystery!