Please Explain??? Weird picture I just took....

OK, So I've always thought we were not alone in this universe.
But after going out the front for a smoke with the wife we saw something in the sky 15 minutes ago. If you are in Melbourne, Australia look in a westerly direction for a very faint object just above the horizon.
I just put the pic on my PC and zoomed in to have a look and this is what I saw.....


[img]https://skydrive.live.com/embed?cid=89E2D94C78659650&resid=89E2D94C78659650%21156&authkey=AA5cgyNWm7XTDgU" width="320" height="240" frameborder="0" scrolling="no">

The link doesn't work!

It says this content is unavailable!

Try it on another website rather than facebook!

Originally posted by faryjay
The link doesn't work!

It says this content is unavailable!

Try it on another website rather than facebook!

Sorry, just fixed the link and uploaded to skydrive...
I would have uploaded it here but the file size is too high...

Can a nice knowledgeable person embed it for me please???

Still not working...

Without looking at the pic my guess would be Mars or Canopus
Link not working so just throwing out a possibility.

Link is definitely working now...

It's 100% not a planet!!!!

I have left the image unchanged so you will have to zoom in...

reply to post by Cohort


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Geez, why not take a look before making
a comment?
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reply to post by Wewillrise77


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Don't know what it is, looks like a seahorse
when you modify the brightness/contrast
There's also a tree in the pic correct? If not
I was pushing the B/C a tad too much.
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Originally posted by snewpers
reply to post by Cohort

 

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Geez, why not take a look before making
a comment?
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Because the link was not working at the time Geez

Originally posted by snewpers
reply to post by Wewillrise77

 

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Don't know what it is, looks like a seahorse
when you modify the brightness/contrast

There's also a tree in the pic correct? If not
I was pushing the B/C a tad too much.
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Yes, there is a tree to the left of the pic. On looking at the picture, my first thought was a Chinese dragon...
I didn't need to modify the contrast, I just zoomed in on the centre of the photo..

Wow that's weird, looks almost like a face in some ways. Maybe it's Nostradamus looking down from the heavens to check if his prediction has happened yet lol

Here it is:



Link to the original photo.

Enhanced version:



To the OP:
- What's your camera model?
- Was you facing East?
- Did the object moved?
- How long it lasted?

I'm not seeing anything that looks "out of this world" I'm no photo expert but is it possible that it's just some weird pixelation? Also is this the zoomed in version of the picture?

Originally posted by cqnoble
I'm not seeing anything that looks "out of this world" I'm no photo expert but is it possible that it's just some weird pixelation? Also is this the zoomed in version of the picture?

Not zoomed in, this is the raw picture..

Is someone able to embed a zoomed in pic of this for those who can't see it??

Elevenaugust, thanks for the embed. I gave you a star for that...

The camera is an Aiptek HD1080, facing west, object was still and visible for about 2 minutes, basically enough to go back inside, get the cam, go back out and take a pic then it was gone...

i see a tree in the foreground - and an unfocused point of light at an unknown distance - do i get a prize ?

Originally posted by ignorant_ape
i see a tree in the foreground - and an unfocused point of light at an unknown distance - do i get a prize ?

Your prize is the pleasure of knowing you have earned you handle on here...

On a serious note, the object judging by where it was would have been 15 - 20km's away.
We can occasionally see planes on approach from that distance, but this isn't a plane.

I live in the western suburbs of Melbourne. I could not see the shape in your pic but I could see a stationary object flashing pink,blue,yellow and red just above the horizon.
My friend who lives 20 minutes away identified the object in the sky as well.
I only had my camera and could not get a picture.
Anyone from Melbourne jump outside and let me know what you see.

Here it is.

Does anyone in here know how to estimate it's size since the tree and fence are in the shot?

I don't know what it could be. But it certainly is an interesting pic. When I studied the zoomed pic, I thought holograms, but the shape seems familiar too. Interesting - the UFO talk and activity in Australia recently.

I don't need to estimate, the tree is 6 metres high by 4 metres wide. And the "fence" is actually the house across the street and is 4 metres high at the roofline and is 30 metres away.... My camera was at a height of 2.1 metres at the time. "I was standing on my front deck"
Hope those measurements help...