Marnie - I sent you a couple of eMails about this. If you haven't
gotten them, don't filter for [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joseph McAllister
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On Dec 6, 2008, at 20:16 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
WARNING: These are very bad photos.
For about three months, there has been a very bright light "parked"
in the
sky over Walnut Creek (actually, it seems to be parked almost over
my house.
Talk about paranoia.) Sometimes there seem to be two. I am not
positive the
second isn't a star, except it is visible when no stars are visible.
The first is very, very bright, and seemingly very big. It looks
like a
helicopter when you first spot it, only it doesn't move. Well, it
does move, but
very, very slowly, so the movement isn't visible.
I've pointed it out to three people in the last three months, no
one knows
what the heck it is. I suspect it MIGHT be the space station. A
satellite of
some kind anyway. It tends to move in an arch across the sky.
The first photo was taken handheld the other night. Obviously too
much
movement (on my part). The second was taken tonight with a tripod
and bulb, 1/40,
f 5.6, 1600 ISO. By the time I figured out how to shoot bulb it was
getting
much lower in the sky (new camera and never shot bulb before). It
started out
much higher. (The other had become so low it was behind the trees/
hills).
Any suggestion on how to shoot it better, appreciated. Sometimes
there is a
helicopter in that part of the sky and I'd like to get them together.
Because, pause, it really looks like it is leaving the "mother
ship." ;-)
http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/UFO1.htm
http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/UFO2.htm
Marnie aka Doe :-) You asked, frank, and you got.
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