Deeply Shocking Photos , Be afraid Very Afraid !

BADGER.BRAD

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O.k so I have a cheap Bridge camera that I have never really used as I fast replaced it with a better Digi camera. Today I took it out of the cupboard and had a very quick attempt at Astro Photography. I put the camera on it's back facing the sky and gave it 20 seconds exposure. Little did I know I was going to witness an Alien Invasion ! Does the Government know ? Is this a Conspiracy ? Take a look at the photo and you will see it looks shockingly like a screen grab from Space invaders !

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I think it was a delicate mix of a poor camera and stupidity IE:me blowing up the image to see if there was movement in the stars only to find they were totally miss shaped. I saw this so thought I would take a crop from the enlarged image to show this !

This was the original

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By my reckoning (and, to keep the maths & science within my limited ability, assuming the position of the stars and the earth are fixed in relation to each other, and that the earth rotates 360° in 24 hours), it will take the earth 4 minutes to rotate 1° - so your 20s exposure (as reported by my browser exif plugin) would cover 0.083 degrees of rotation.

I'm wondering if the brightness of the stars with the 20s exposure would be enough to overload a sensor pixel and cause the weird colours but I haven't the knowledge to know if this is plausible or not. I'm wondering if the strange shapes are down to sensor resolution, camera optics and any possible movement of the camera - same caveat as before about my knowledge.
 
Zoomed right in to pixel level on a JPEG (?) from a cheap bridge, that looks about right.
 
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