Stellacam3 UFO software

[blavatsky]

Hi, On May 25th 2008 on my first night of recording with a stellacam3 and a JVC 7-70mm TV zoom lens F1.4 I caught a UFO (~ 30 of footage).

However, the settings on the stellacam3 meant that each exposure was about 8 seconds and so the movement of the object is blurred into a bright line. My question is,
Is there any software on the market to restore the appearance of what would have been a round bright circular object moving slowly?

I also caught a plane and it has the appearance of a ladder (two parallel lines.

Any help is always appreciated.

example at youtube
http://youtube.com/watch?v=G4QrQezZqME

[hpcoolahan]

First of all blavatsky welcome to the site.:smile:

Unfortunately once its recorded like it is ,, thats it im afraid.

I dont think the is any software that can help.
Sorry for the bad news there.

So share a little about you astronomical interests with us anyway instead!!
:biggrin:

Cheers
Patrick

[Tenacious Del]

how do you know it's not the space station or shuttle or hubble or something else like that?

[blavatsky]

Some of my astronomical interests.

I am interested in cosmogenesis.
I think Stephen Hawkings is an intelligent soul but I do not believe in the "Big Bang Theory".... I believe there are many forms of matter re the Holy Bible:
Our Father who art in Heaven.... hallowed be thy name ,
thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth even as it is in Heaven...
so if this Heaven is also made of a matter similar to what we see in our dreams then this "unseen matter" can be made (under the right conditions)
to precipitate into manifestation (this objective universe of dense physical matter). An analogy is like seeing a cloud appear around a jet fighter when it hits a mach number. The water vapour while invisible can be made to 'appear' under the right conditions. This may be rather simplistic but it is a starting point. So our univers actually formed by a gradual process of precipitation rather than a 'Big Bang' There must also be the possibllity of civilisations which are much more evolved than ours and some that are less evolved on other planets.

I do not believe that Alien Abductions are due to extraterrestrials but are done here on Earth by clandestine figures who plan to control by fear (intel from Dr Steven Greer in the United States. former aid to Clinton Administration on UFO's and Extraterrestrial presence) The Late General Douglas Macarther in his final address said we will have to quote "prepare for interplanetary war." Interesting words from our chief war monger. I believe he and his pals in the Industrial Military Complex are planning strategies to self perpetuate the need for war.

I have been an eyewitness to a UFO event 12 years ago at Koolewong NSW
where (at 2:30am) I saw a star-like object appear out of no-where (I was camping in the backyard -, star gazing under a clear sky) and moves slowly directly above me about 2-5 kilometres up I think in a haphazard way then after about 1 minute it comes to complete standstill directly above me. Then it proceeded to get brighter and brighter without moving and then suddenly disappeared in a bright flash of white light.

I also love spiral galaxies.

How is that for starters?

[Radar]

Welcome to the site mate.

It just looks like a standard slow moving (but bright) satellite to me. What time of day was this?

Ray

[blavatsky]

Somebody mentioned an indium flare the problem is my object travels in a straight line. No one has been able to convince me it is not a UFO yet.
I will acknowledge a good answer but if yoiu offer swamp-gas I will reject it.

[blavatsky]

Somebody mentioned an indium flare the problem is my object travels in a straight line. No one has been able to convince me it is not a UFO yet.
I will acknowledge a good answer but if yoiu offer swamp-gas I will reject it.

The time it was taken Monday morning 26th May 2008 ~5:00am

[Radar]

From my knowledge of observing man made satellites, they all travel in a straight line, including iridium flares.

The time you specify also points to a man made satellite. The space station, space shuttle and other man made satellites are best seen in the hours after sunset or hours before sunrise. So 5a.m is consistent this practice. Objects can't be in the Earth's shadow for them to be visible, they still need to reflect light and this is usually close to twilight.

Ray

[blavatsky]

Hello Radar,
I agree with your viewing times for satellites. You seem to be purposely excluding the possiblity of it being a UFO though, I infer from that you have never seen on or that you do not believe they exist. It does move in a straight line, but it appears to hit maximum brightness for the middle half of its appearance.
The first quarter and last quarter show it appearing and disappearing.
How do you account for that ? Also, because it looks brightest in the middle half of its travel this could signify that it has slowed down. (total travel ~ 30seconds)
Besides I don't think satellites can appear and disappear in this manner. The satellites I have seen traverse most of the sky not such very small segments like this object has done.

[Radar]

You seem to be purposely excluding the possiblity of it being a UFO though,

G'day Blavatsky, until we identify this object, it remains an unidentified flying object. But I definitely won't be saying aliens were in the area without solid evidence.



It does move in a straight line, but it appears to hit maximum brightness for the middle half of its appearance.
The first quarter and last quarter show it appearing and disappearing.
How do you account for that ? Also, because it looks brightest in the middle half of its travel this could signify that it has slowed down. (total travel ~ 30seconds)
Besides I don't think satellites can appear and disappear in this manner. The satellites I have seen traverse most of the sky not such very small segments like this object has done.

Okay I'm glad you told me all that. Everything you just described is a perfect description of how some man made satellites or some space junk will behave.

Let's take a decommissioned or detached (malfunctioning) satellite the size of a standard caravan. This object is no longer controlled by people down here because of budget, so this object is left to cruise the heavens by itself. Because they are out of control, they may spin slowly as they orbit Earth. This slow spinning makes them become brighter at certain points (because more of their shiny surface is reflecting sunlight), and at other times they may appear dimmer or even disappear purely because whichever side is facing us is no longer reflective.

From what you've explained it sounds like you first glimpsed this object as it was quite dim, as it spun, it became brighter, as it kept spinning, it slowly became dimmer.

Iridium flares are good examples of this process. All Iridium's spin. See below -

http://schuerens.com/Trips/Davis_mtns_2005/images/flare-6_04_05.jpg

http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/uploads/images/AndyCflareIPPSDigDevCropSmall.jpg

http://i.pbase.com/u26/bryan_murahashi/upload/43280493.051105_DSC_5712_IridiumFlare7_.jpg

http://pages.cthome.net/astroleo/iridium4.jpg

Let me know if you need any more information.

Ray

[blavatsky]

Thanks for these images.

I must say these objects have some similarities.

However,

there are also significant differences.
1 degree = 60 arc-minutes

your objects still span long distances (many arc-minutes) I believe the moon subtends 30 arc-minutes ( half a degree) your objects seem to be obout 20 degrees.
Do you know how many seconds your image appears for ?

Mine subtends about 120 arc-minutes but takes about 30 seconds. So my object is moving very slowly.

I should state for the record , I did not see the object. It was recorded overnight and I fast forwarded the video on my hard drive and found it.

I can only infer that it was a slow moving object and therefore appeared much brighter due to the low frame rate of the video camera ( ~8 seconds per frame). I am preferring to believe it was extra-terrestrial at this stage
but I am open to being proven wrong.


If you like I can give you superimposed footage to help you decide.
The superimposed is a plane recorded on the same night under exactly the same conditions and camera settings.
Shall I try and post here or email the image directly to you?
kind regards

blavatsky

[Radar]

your objects still span long distances (many arc-minutes) I believe the moon subtends 30 arc-minutes ( half a degree) your objects seem to be obout 20 degrees.

Do you know how many seconds your image appears for ?

Mine subtends about 120 arc-minutes but takes about 30 seconds. So my object is moving very slowly.


G'day mate,

You'll find that all satellites move at completely different speeds. Some travel fast, say ten kilometres per second! Others don't travel at all, they are geo stationary satellites, they simply move around the Earth at the same speed as the Earth rotates, so they always sit above the same geographical region. These types of satellites are usually at high altitudes as well, 30,000km's.

The speed that satellites spin at will also deteremine how quickly they appear, become their brightest, then dissapear.

Your video observation is totally consistent with a man made satellite.



If you like I can give you superimposed footage to help you decide.
The superimposed is a plane recorded on the same night under exactly the same conditions and camera settings.
Shall I try and post here or email the image directly to you?
kind regards


Sure mate, that would be awesome. Probably best to post it here in case other members have some information to share.

Ray

[blavatsky]

This plane appeared earlier in the night, it is a single frame and I measured it more accurately at 5.025 seconds. ie each and every frame is 5.025 seconds.

The UFO clip (is 4 frames merged together) is less than 4 frames so it is less than 20 seconds. However registax has does something to the footage which
makes the middle half of the UFO's travel appear less brighter than it appears on the video.