It must clearly be the mothership. It was taken with the 14-150 at 14mm
which covers about 45 degrees on the short side of the image. Putting a
grid on that in PhotoShop allows me to estimate that the "object" is 2
degrees wide. My guess from the clouds is that it's maybe 5-10 miles
away. At 5 miles it's about 875 feet in diameter. At 10 miles it's
1750 feet in diameter or just about 1/3 of a mile.
I hope it went back home. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/27/2014 9:42 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
> Obviously, you’ve captured an image of the mothership. You could make some
> money with that one some of the upper channels on your cable TV. <g>
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> Certified Neanderthal
>
> On Jan 26, 2014, at 11:37 AM, Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> I was looking at Bob's square cropped photos when it occurred to me that
>> I also had a recent pano that, by accident, had turned out square. I
>> just processed it yesterday and decided I'd post it here. When I took
>> the shot and also when I was working on turning the three original
>> images into a pano I noticed what appeared to be a lighter, curved
>> streak in the sky. I figured it was some bit of contrail and didn't pay
>> it much attention.
>>
>> But when I was resizing the image this morning to post on Zone-10 I
>> decided to take a look at 100%. I was a bit stunned by what I saw since
>> I have no idea what it is. Maybe you do.
>>
>> Here's the main image. It's a sunset taken in Orlando while visiting
>> friends there a couple days ago and has had no adjustments other than a
>> slight reduction in highlights:
>> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=10974>
>>
>> and here's a 100% pixel crop of a section of sky located about 20% of
>> image width in from the left and about 40% up from the bottom. Looks
>> like a perfect disk. Anyone got a guess what it might be?
>> <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=10977>
>
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