Look Out Of Your Window Now! Astronomical events.

shoes

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Bizzarely enough i took about a dozen shots and none of them showed anything, only that one, i don't know what would have caused that. it was firmly planted on a dirty great manfrotto, pointed exactly 264 degrees and up at 30 degrees.

The moon was behind so I can only assume the white is the flare. the orange, yes i agree is sodium lamps, you can see the gaps due to our 50 Hz AC.
 
Gramaisc

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I was talking about the second one. That first one looks like a fast transit of a few 50Hz streetlights and then a fairly steady long duration shot with some moving clouds illuminated by the obligatory sodium streetlights.
 
shoes

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Ah the second one is just a landscape, I like the contrast of blue and orange.

In the first photo there is come glare from the orange streaks, but the white one is the flare, i'm certain, it's at a break in the clouds, perfectly aligned for the satellite's path and the moon was directly behind me.

My camera is filthy inside, I would have it cleaned however it costs almost as much as the camera is worth and I shall be upgrading shortly anyway. I have already cleaned all user serviceable parts.
 
Withnail

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shoes said:
Anyone care to hazzard a guess what's going on here as it wasn't visible in the clouds with the naked eye.
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Many years ago, on an acidic visit to the Chase, i raised my eyes at an auspicious moment and viewed a meteor (shooting star) that became visible in the sky above Scotland and blazed a trail across the sky before finally burning out above East Anglia. I was walking down the path from Brocton Coppice to the Stepping Stones and saw it for a fraction of a second, understandably passing it off at the time as a mere hallucination.

Many is the time i have wished i were on a hill when it happened.

Have looked to see if similar event happened at time of photo to no avail, possible explanation though.
 
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Withnail said:
Sun halo.
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Closest pic i could find to how it appeared when i saw it.

First time i've seen one. Anyone else see it?
 
Florence

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I saw a bit of rainbow on either side of the sun when I came back from Burton yesterday, about half seven in the evening. What are they called? Sun dogs? Or are they something else?
 
Gramaisc

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Indeed, or parhelia, or 'mock suns'. They tend to look white as the refraction patterns overlap somewhat more than in a rainbow. They're caused mostly by reflection from ice crystals which have a tendency to align their faces vertically - hence the light is strongest either side of the Sun.
 
Florence

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That is exciting. I saw an aurora back in the eighties right here in Stafford. I shall be looking out tonight. Cool!
 
Gramaisc

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Florence said:
I saw an aurora back in the eighties right here in Stafford.
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Just after closing time?



Unfortunately, it was a bit cloudy last night - might be worth another try tonight..
 
shoes

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Pesky cloud! There was an iridium flare last night, -6 mag, very very bright - 285 degrees, 18 degrees above. No cloud in the sky except between around 240 and 300 degrees, from 0 to 35 degrees up.

Bah!
 
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shoes

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Saw a flare tonight - beautiful night for stargazing! Sadly I didn't capture it on camera but it was very bright!
 
Vault_girl

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Monday evening around 8pm when there was a mega heavy downpour we were driving back from Cannock to Stafford on the A34 and there was an extremely bright rainbow landing in the field to our right. Didn't see any pots of gold though :(
 
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