What the heck is in my image (top right corner)?

[Leo.G]

https://i.postimg.cc/X7JWBVM4/ASP-1378-2-5887x3929.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/P50dk0Rh/ASP-1379-5887x3929.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/kXXJNQSr/ASP-1380-5887x3929.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/28KD4Pmv/ASP-1381-2-5887x3929.jpg

https://i.postimg.cc/jSPFL9jR/ASP-1382-5887x3929.jpg




All images untouched with the exception of a signature. All images 25 second exposure at ISO 2200, Nikon D810, Rokinon 14mm F2.8ED. Two second delay between each frame (intervalometer).
Shot last night around 8:40PM from my back yard in Bowenfels, NSW


The object appears to fade out in the second last image and disappears in the final image.

[iborg]

Hi Leo


My guess is vented fuel from a rocket or satellite. I have seen something similar from Melbourne, which was reported in various places as vented fuel.


Philip

[sheeny]

Looks like lens flare to me. It's in a fixed position relative to the frame/camera. i.e. it doesn't move with the stars, so it isn't in space.



Is there another light above the bright window on the right of frame?


Al.

[Leo.G]

I thought satellites utilised solar panels?
I haven't looked into them or the technology behind them.





No and it fades and disappears in the final frame. I checked my front and side security cameras (I live in a department of housing area (sorry, department of community and justice) in a commission house) to check for lights but nothing.
Plus the bright window showing in the right most of the frame is a neighbours front porch light reflecting off my kitchen window on the complete opposite side of the house to where I was shooting (I need a property of my own with no neighbours). I was actually quite shocked to see the light or that side of the house appeared in the frame.
Plus that porch light is still visible in the final frame when camera and tripod have not moved at all so I disregarded that as a possible cause.

[sharkbite]

It looks like classic lens flare to me.

when i flick between the penultimate and the last photo...

have a look at the bottom right....another light located somewhere else out of shot has switched off...

on balance of probability - i reckon its that.

[Nikolas]

Lens flare, as Sharkbite said it is when a light was missing in the background (bottom right flick between the photos) the flare disappears

[Paul Haese]

That is definitely a lens flare. The light source is coming from the right of the frame, just outside of the field of view.

[Regulus]

It's a lens flair from the light at bottom right. If you put the last 2 images up and flick between them you will see that what looks to be a long fluorescent globe goes off and the flair disappears.

[CraigStar]

yep that is a lens flair. I have been asked by others at times thinking they have taken a pic of a UFO. Nice pic though!

[Leo.G]

I didn't think I'd taken a picture of an UFO, that was a different photo, lol.


https://i.postimg.cc/T3BK5cL3/ASP-1171-Highlight-WM-5887x3929.jpg


Whether I believe in UFO's (sorry, UAP's) or not I don't turn my camera to the sky to try and get youtube quality images of them, my editing skills are nowhere near high enough, being colour blind, having bad sight and being dumb as dog crap doesn't help. This just didn't look like lens flare I'm more familiar with from daylight photography (and night cityscape photography when I lived in the city (Sydney) many years ago ). In saying that I didn't have a Samyang 14mm f2.8 lens back then either and my camera had film I couldn't edit.

[joshman]

It could be the rocket exhaust from the Chandrayaan-3 launch, I saw it low on the northern horizon while camping out at a dark sky site on the same evening at about that time.


However, it is more likely to be lens flare from the light that is just out of frame.