Did I capture a Satelite?

cydonia · #1 23-07-2005, 05:13 PM

Hi All,

I would like to know your opinions on what satelite I captured. i was playing with my new camera at 10x zoom and taking photos of some planes as they came over, I noticed on this image a object which I think is a satelite? The sun appears to hit the sat on the same side as the plane which I thought was odd. Any ideas? I had to resize it to upload the image.

Clear Skies
kevin

atalas · #2 23-07-2005, 05:35 PM

Hi keven ,don't know maybe another plane the colour would suggest to me.

Louie

vindictive666 (John) · #3 23-07-2005, 05:41 PM

could be a weather balloon ? (deflating)

i allways thought of capturing a satellite during the day wouldnt be possible ?
most likely wrong about that dont really know

you are really lucky if you did

frogman (Anthony Lord) · #4 23-07-2005, 05:42 PM

Cool dude you captured an Alien spacecraft........ i thought my boys werent going to get caught this year

Anthony

h0ughy (David) · #5 23-07-2005, 05:51 PM

Its a cigar shaped UFO

. apart from the dust spore it would be very difficult to work out what that was? Where were you looking, at what time and try to work out the part of the sky you were looking at when you took the photo. note time date and approx direction you were facing and its rough height above the horizon. I'll then plug it into skycharting programme to see what it could have been?

acropolite (Phil) · #6 23-07-2005, 05:57 PM

Iridium flares are visible during the day so it may be possible.

Astroman (Andrew Wall) · #7 23-07-2005, 06:07 PM

I have seen Satellites during the day, not iridium but was like one you see at night, but didnt look like the image. I took pics of a UFO too while taking pics of an Airforce 707 flying near my house. No idea what it was.

http://www.saweather.net/temp/ufo1.jpg
http://www.saweather.net/temp/ufo2.jpg
http://www.saweather.net/temp/ufo3.jpg
http://www.saweather.net/temp/ufo4.jpg

asimov (John) · #8 24-07-2005, 07:22 AM

Hope you dont mind Kevin..I mucked about with your pic. The color I didn't muck with at all...this is the objects "natural" colour...just brought out using some tweaking.

It's got me stumped!

asimov (John) · #9 24-07-2005, 07:29 AM

That red on the object look's suspiciously like the same colour as that qantas 727...or is it a 737? not sure.

Stew · #10 24-07-2005, 08:13 AM

Sorry, its a qantas plane, satellites dont have wings
why dont you download WXtrack at www.satsignal.net great free satellite tracking program
i use it all the time,just load the 100 brightest satellites from celestrak.com every couple of weeks to keep the tracking accurate.most satellites are about the size of a fridge appart from the space station,and hubble telescope which are huge.

Striker (Tony) · #11 24-07-2005, 08:33 AM

It's fairly obvious what it is..........It's a Nuclear Missile.

asimov (John) · #12 24-07-2005, 09:20 AM

Well...I cant see wings on the object in question.

toetoe (Peter) · #13 24-07-2005, 09:36 AM

Strange and intresting when you see pics like that.

Stew · #14 24-07-2005, 10:32 AM

Well if you cant see wings,that planes in big trouble
Me thinks you need a bigger telecsope

cydonia · #15 24-07-2005, 10:58 AM

Hi Guys,

Thanks for your replies. asimov you did a great job on enhanceing the object, After seeing this i wouldn't think it could be a satellite, I thought all satellites were silver and gold.

h0ughy, I took this image last month when jupiter and the moon were close together, about 4pm in the afternoon, I was looking east at the time and the plane was about 70deg high and heading north. i wouldn't think another aircraft would be allowed to fly this close to a boeing.
Astroman your images are also very interesting, I have always been sceptical about aliens in spaceships, but these thing always make you look more closely. Do you love near Richmond NSW?

i guess we will have to file it into a X files

CS
Kevin

asimov (John) · #16 24-07-2005, 01:25 PM

*sigh* Dont ya just luv it?? this is what forum's are all about! Stew...biggy size the 1st pic in this thread....scroll to the left of the obvious 727...wadda ya see? yep! a cylindrical object with no wings lol

Stew · #17 24-07-2005, 01:39 PM

OOPS! Sorry guys. I need bigger glasses.
Cant see satellites during the day,not even the ISS
Must be a UFO,very intresting.

asimov (John) · #18 24-07-2005, 02:24 PM

ok, that doesn't explain what it could be....seeing I was the 'ufoologist' in my area back year's ago....& still dont believe in them lol...I do notice it's not QUITE the same focus as the jet....it looks slightly fuzzier than the jet to me....that's telling me something.....could it be something ie: a bit of crud/small bird feather (the list go's on) falling to earth past the camera not far from the lens....hence...not quite the same focus (for want of a better word?) Was the wind blowing when this pic was taken?

Sausageman (Mike Boggan) · #19 24-07-2005, 04:00 PM

Cydonia
What film speed did you use and what exposure time, I imagine it was pretty fast.
It would be pretty hard to track a Qantas 737 with anything. It is definately not an aircraft.
It is quite probable that it was a Bolide just grazing the atmosphere, and though I doubt it, a satellite, the trail would have been much shorter.

No more petty jokes guy's, this could be something exciting.

Kev, Send the photo to AS & T for publication

Mike

asimov (John) · #20 24-07-2005, 04:22 PM

I for one, want to know the date/time/camera(make & model)/location/atmospheric condition's/any more shot's?/witness's(dont matter if they saw anything or not)