Last night's moon

Last night's moon. At first all looks good right? Well , when I zoom in on the "white" surface of the moon this is what I see. Don't know what it is but it appears to be brown.I handheld the shot. May have to try the tripod tonight to see if it is still there. I really gotta quit playing with the zoom feature in my editing program!

#1 Regular shot
#2 zoomed in and cropped
#3 same shot but 100% sharpening so you can see it is different

Photo #3

Could it actually be something between the earth and the moon that was just there when I snapped the shot?

I took this one, but didn't see anything foreign.

I took another one last night also. Granted it was about an hour and a half later then the previous one. Nothing. I am thinking it might have been a satellite or something like that I caught in between.

That would be hard to prove cause every night the phase of the moon changes and places that were shadowed one night changes nightly even over a period of hours . As the moon increases to 100% shadows disappear and bright areas of the moon may get even brighter . Another thing it could be is over sharpening or brightening during the PP . Looks like you have blowout in alot or areas on the moon .

Was the moon about the same spot in the sky as the Clark Belt where the geosynchronous satellites are parked? If that is a statellite, then what a catch!

Say what? LOL....Not quite sure what all that means.


Here is the thing. I took several shots. All handheld that night. These were the clearest ones. Sorry, did not have the tripod. I was just playing around. Anyhow. In the other photos, the object did move. I do not know how long in between as I have deleted the photos because they were no good. But by the time I took the last one, the object was almost off the lower left side of the moon. So that now tells me it was not on the moon. It was something inbetween. I am not sure what it is. No, not a ufo..........I am not one of them. But, it was something. Was just curious if anyone had captured anything like that before or not.

PeteD wrote in post #14798280
Say what? LOL....Not quite sure what all that means.


Here is the thing. I took several shots. All handheld that night. These were the clearest ones. Sorry, did not have the tripod. I was just playing around. Anyhow. In the other photos, the object did move. I do not know how long in between as I have deleted the photos because they were no good. But by the time I took the last one, the object was almost off the lower left side of the moon. So that now tells me it was not on the moon. It was something inbetween. I am not sure what it is. No, not a ufo..........I am not one of them. But, it was something. Was just curious if anyone had captured anything like that before or not.

You would need a burst of 10 or more images within a couple seconds to capture a satellite crossing the moon cause i have been observing the moon in the past when a satellite crossed the moon which caused short blindness from the brightness but it crossed so fast there was no way i could capture it . Here is a video of a satellite crossing the top section of the moon . Basically if it was a satellite IMHO you would have seen it in the viewer while taking the picture .

http://www.youtube.com​/watch?v=WsvlO0YYmA0

I took about 8. It was only in two of them. ANd I did not even know it was there until I zoomed in on them looking at the craters and such.

Thanks for the info. Will write it off as "who knows".

Spacejunk?