Asteroid I Think

banjoguns wrote in post #17340986
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For the people not seeing it. It originates a bit left of top center and moves downward.

Better description...thanks.

So, that blinky thing that looks like some sort of stray pixel that sort of drops left/right through the whole timeframe? That's puzzling, but almost seems like it might just some sort of weird artifact in the timelapse. Would still love to see 3 or 4 stills that this was built off of to see the object static.

Lights of an high altitude airplane

Reservoir Dog wrote in post #17341900
Lights of an high altitude airplane

That was there for 2 hours?

chichi2130 wrote in post #17341692
It looks like it's moving across the sky at the same speed as everything else, just in a different direction...

For the life of me, I can't see this thing in the video. But this observation is the key IMHO.

I didn't recognize any of the stars and I was curious about the fuzzy at the end of the clip. So I took a screen grab, plate solved it and set my planetarium program to the location. I set the date to the 13th and location to Chicago.
Bingo. Outside the frame to the left is Jupiter rising at Mag -2.3 (very bright). So what you have is the reflection of Jupiter in a filter or the front element and because it's a reflection, it moves in the opposite direction.
Most people's UFO's are street light reflections. At least your is celestial.
The fuzzy is the open cluster, M48.

Steve.

SteveInNZ wrote in post #17342307
For the life of me, I can't see this thing in the video. But this observation is the key IMHO.

It's very faint, but I've attached a screenshot with the object circled. It starts at the top and moves down and left in the frame.

Thanks. I see it now. I have to admit it looks much more like a satellite than a Jupiter reflection.
If you had an exact time and location it might be possible to find one that fits.

Steve.

First frame = Shooting Date/Time 12/14/2014 12:14:04 AM

Last frame = Shooting Date/Time 12/14/2014 1:46:04 AM

Sorry. I can't find one that matches. There are some that follow that path but are too fast and some that are too slow. There's one that's close but it's going in the other direction.
The satellite tracker shows about 20 geostationary satellites in that field of view and around 100 that pass through during your timelapse. It's a wonder that we can see any stars with all that flying around.

I guess we're back to UFO.

Steve.

SteveInNZ wrote in post #17342307
For the life of me, I can't see this thing in the video. But this observation is the key IMHO.

I didn't recognize any of the stars and I was curious about the fuzzy at the end of the clip. So I took a screen grab, plate solved it and set my planetarium program to the location. I set the date to the 13th and location to Chicago.
Bingo. Outside the frame to the left is Jupiter rising at Mag -2.3 (very bright). So what you have is the reflection of Jupiter in a filter or the front element and because it's a reflection, it moves in the opposite direction.
Most people's UFO's are street light reflections. At least your is celestial.
The fuzzy is the open cluster, M48.

Steve.

Well that's the best possible answer Steve. I wonder why Jupiter is the only thing reflecting tho, I know its bright even though I can't pick it out.

Good suggestion in any case.