I had the same problem with some pictures I took of Jupiter with the digital rebel (these were taken afocal through the telescope, so the camera lens wasn't to blame in this case). Anyway, I noticed a circular blue shape off to the side of Jupiter that looked similar to the ring nebula. After looking at it closely, it appears to be some sort of reflection of Jupiter being picked up during the long exposure. On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 08:49, Steven Goodwin wrote:

Someone here at my work came to me with two strange photos he took while camping near arches national park last Saturday around 9p. He set up his camera to do a 30 sec exposure of Venus and took another picture a few minutes afterwards. What happens is that you see a normal star trail but when comparing the two photos all the stars except one travel clockwise (to the west of course) and the one brightish blue star (???) travels the exact opposite direction. It is best seen if you have a slide show type viewer that can flash quickly between the two photos.

Any thoughts on what this blue object could be? I thought it could be a satelite or a meteorite but the star trail is the same length (I thought a satelite or meteorite should have a fairly long trail)- a comet perhaps? Anyone know the location of current viewable comets?

If the photos can't be distributed through the list serve is there a way to upload it to the UVAA website? That is if anyone would be interested.

Steve G ____________________ Steven & Jenny Goodwin puhiava@macosx.com

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