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Originally Posted by RUSirius
I took a few milky way photos on Friday night and have a difference in a couple that I would like some help explaining. Can anyone tell me whether a star around the area of Alpha Circinus/Co Circinus would have been expected to brighten significantly or do anything weird brightness wise on Friday night? I will start looking into it a bit more myself too, but thought someone might know off hand.
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Hi Emma,
I assume you are saying that you took 2 photos of the same region that night and there was a strange star like image on one and not the other.
A number of years ago I did a novae search programme of the Milky way using just a normal 35mm camera with 55mm lens. I saw this effect a lot and that's why I took multiple images of every field. This saved me from reporting a 7th magnitude nova about once a month! I bet you picked up a point meteor (ie. one coming straight at the camera).
Regards
Glenn