Penumbral Lunar Eclipse with balloon??

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Penumbral Lunar Eclipse with balloon??

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Hi,
I took a few shots at the Full Moon using my Canon 450D + EFS 55-250mm during the Penumbral Lunar Eclipse. I discovered the last of the 3 Moon shots I took outside Funan DigitaLife Mall got something interesting in the Moon. Below is the 100% crop of the image with some sharpening and level adjusting:
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Not sure what is the black round object, but it look like a balloon to me.

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Is the object at the same position in all 3 shots? What was your timing between the 3 shots?
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Hi :

V nice image you got there.

Black dot - too big? for satellite transit though. ( check cal-sky if you want)
I was doing similar in woodlands and saw from the LCD black dot across the round moon perhaps bird in my case

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Post by cataclysm »

Nice shot! It would be more interesting if the silhouette is bat or an airplane. [smilie=admire2.gif]
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Bat or airplane? Nah... I want a star shaped intergalactic cruiser with blue and orange lights pulsating through the hull! :P
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Post by Clifford60 »

dirt on the sensor?
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Post by Fuzzy »

What you have here is technically an Unidentified Flying Object [smilie=evil-smile.gif]
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Post by weixing »

Hi,
Tachyon wrote:Is the object at the same position in all 3 shots? What was your timing between the 3 shots?
The interval are around 10s and the first two shots don't have any black dot... only the last one had.
Clifford60 wrote:dirt on the sensor?
I was shooting at f5.6 and the black dot only appear in this shot... also the black dot is too sharp and too black to be the shadow of dust.

Anyway, I do a little calculation (hope my maths are correct) and find out that if a 25cm diameter balloon to had the same angular size of the black dot, it'll only need to be at around 1.57km away. The Moon during the time was around 38.5 degree above horizon, so the "balloon" will be only less than 1 km above horizon. Since the location was at city hall and it's quite common that some of those helium filled balloon got loose and fly away, so I think it was likely to be a balloon.

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Post by kayheem »

Hi all,

Using my super-duper hi-res image analyzer, I managed to determine that the actual shape of the shadow to be this:

http://www.singastro.org/album_pic.php?pic_id=1103

Perhaps airconvent can ID this. :lol:
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Post by swat_pup6433 »

arr!! looks like the galatic cruiser you are looking for! err or a flying head of a gal with 2 pigtails?? lol
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