quoconut
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Post by quoconut on Feb 23, 2024 0:56:29 GMT
Friday night January 26, 2024, close to midnight: last night of a week-long cruise around the Caribbean and we're halfway between the Bahamas and Miami. I'm outside on the deck, not another ship in sight, just a calm dark ocean. It's a beautiful night and I take a picture of the moon shining brightly behind some clouds: As I'm taking the picture I notice a fast and erratically moving blue dot in that part of the sky that I want to take a picture of. So I take the picture quickly in the hope I might catch that weird blue thing on camera, and indeed, there it is: Once back home I upload it to my computer and enlarge the blue dot and now I'm really intrigued: What is this ??!! And please believe me: there's no trickery here - this is the picture I took and I actually saw that blue thing moving around just before I took the picture. Seconds after I took the picture it shot up behind the clouds and disappeared.
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mortified
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Post by mortified on Feb 23, 2024 7:09:34 GMT
Intriguing. And not a clue by the way The enhancement on the computer just shows it as a shapeless mass but I presume that's down to the break-up of the pixilation. Quite often happens with a zoom lens on a bridge camera or a phone as well. But welcome to The Twilight Zone
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Post by dennis on Feb 23, 2024 14:26:21 GMT
Is it God?
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gerh
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Post by gerh on Feb 23, 2024 14:27:52 GMT
Nah. It doesn’t look remotely like Frank Zappa.
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Post by dennis on Feb 23, 2024 14:50:09 GMT
Nah. It doesn’t look remotely like Frank Zappa. Maybe if you squint a bit?
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Post by granny on Feb 23, 2024 15:52:51 GMT
Convective activity within the clouds together with scattering of moonlight by various shapes/sizes of ice crystals/droplets.
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Post by dennis on Feb 23, 2024 16:06:10 GMT
Convective activity within the clouds together with scattering of moonlight by various shapes/sizes of ice crystals/droplets. That does sound like a Zappa song title
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gerh
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Post by gerh on Feb 23, 2024 19:30:58 GMT
Yeah - it's one of his, ahem... more 'atmospheric' tunes! 👀
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quoconut
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Post by quoconut on Feb 23, 2024 21:09:31 GMT
Convective activity within the clouds together with scattering of moonlight by various shapes/sizes of ice crystals/droplets. I'll take your word (or rather: explanation) for it, Granny, but does that also explain the fast and irregular up/down/left/right movement of the blue dot that I witnessed, as well as the fact that it then just shot up and disappeared behind the clouds in less than a second?
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Post by granny on Feb 24, 2024 12:03:07 GMT
Convective activity within the clouds together with scattering of moonlight by various shapes/sizes of ice crystals/droplets. I'll take your word (or rather: explanation) for it, Granny, but does that also explain the fast and irregular up/down/left/right movement of the blue dot that I witnessed, as well as the fact that it then just shot up and disappeared behind the clouds in less than a second? Mine was just a suggestion. Quite often odd happenings can be explained by Physics such as Brownian dynamics or atmospheric illusions. Your enlargement looks like a cloud which indicates it could behave as a fluid but you observed it as a dot. Could the position of your eye (or head or lens) have moved as you were focusing? Optical illusions eg rainbows, mirages, depend on the position of the observer.
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Post by Mrs Flittersnoop on Feb 24, 2024 12:46:48 GMT
Could be ball lightning. I don't know if that happens within clouds.
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Post by Gaz on Feb 25, 2024 21:11:31 GMT
aah damn it… where’s Davyno when we need him?
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Post by railroad007 on Mar 9, 2024 18:26:00 GMT
blue lens bogey flicked at speed?
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Post by charles on Mar 10, 2024 7:25:38 GMT
Convective activity within the clouds together with scattering of moonlight by various shapes/sizes of ice crystals/droplets. I'll take your word (or rather: explanation) for it, Granny, but does that also explain the fast and irregular up/down/left/right movement of the blue dot that I witnessed, as well as the fact that it then just shot up and disappeared behind the clouds in less than a second? You were on a cruise. There was free booze...
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quoconut
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Post by quoconut on Mar 14, 2024 15:04:19 GMT
You were on a cruise. There was free booze... Finally an explanation I can understand...!
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