I want to believe… – Its not photography, its Farktography

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April 17, 2011 at 12:11 pm #2214

ravnostic
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I’ve been looking for these forevar. There was a nice picture of it in the paper at the time, as well. It wasn’t my picture. 🙄 These are. (it’s really only two, Cropped tighter consecutively in even steps)

April 17, 2011 at 2:18 pm #37657

ennuipoet
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It’s a streetlight. 🙂

April 17, 2011 at 2:25 pm #37660

Farktographer
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Swamp gas reflecting the moonlight?

/edit to ask: How much did you zoom in to get that final shot? It’s impressive

April 17, 2011 at 2:55 pm #37659

nobigdeal
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The Aliens had a birthday party and one of the young aliens let go of their alien balloon and it floated away from the mothership.

April 17, 2011 at 3:28 pm #37658

chupathingie
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Nice!

Oh, you might want to keep one of these handy:
http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/image.php?&aid=1400&air-force-identification-chart.gif

April 17, 2011 at 5:26 pm #37656

Farktographer
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Nice!

Oh, you might want to keep one of these handy:
http://xmb.stuffucanuse.com/xmb/image.php?&aid=1400&air-force-identification-chart.gif

Wow! I was right?

April 17, 2011 at 6:10 pm #37655

ravnostic
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Swamp Gas. Earth humor.

//Love it!

There are two shots. The first four above are at 70mm (Tamron 70-300mm). Starting with a native resolution of 3888×2492 full frame, I shrank to 480×720. The second shot I cropped proportionately so that the long side was equal to the previous short side. I progressed to the 4th image, then switched to the one at 300mm, and repeated the process. The last image is the 300mm at full resolution (i.e., no compression in the crop.)

These were taken September 11, 2009. I clipped the article from the paper that described what it was exactly, but I’ve mislaid it since then. I’m just glad I found the pictures while archive diving! I’d thought I’d lost them.
I suppose I could do the maths, but I’d wager a guess that the angular diameter was around 2-4 arc seconds. Something like that backlit by the moon would be incredible.

April 18, 2011 at 6:24 pm #37654

caradoc
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NICE! The best I’ve done is:

April 18, 2011 at 7:22 pm #37653

ravnostic
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Every bit as good, Caradoc, I just got lucky and noticed it after the sun had set (from my vantage point.) Did that happen to be the same one? Sept, 2009?

April 19, 2011 at 2:48 am #37652

caradoc
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June 11, 2009. There was a string of ’em, and every time I spotted one I didn’t have a chance to shoot it – except this one.

(If you click on the image, you can look at the EXIF data – I keep mine visible for most images as I’m a moderator for the Flickr CLS group and it’s just easier to leave it enabled.)
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