[Leica] UFOs?

[Aram Langhans]

We tried a few night shots one day while in Yosemite.  I pulled up to 
Valley View and hopped out of the van and saw the strangest thing.  A 
whole line of lights moving across the sky from west to the east, one 
right after another.  Like a military convoy of planes.  One other 
person was there and he said they just started and he counted 36 of them 
so far.  I quickly set up the Q2 and did a rough manual focus on the 
stars and got this shot. I was lucky.  I did not have time to play 
around with the focus or even where I was aiming the camera.  As it turn 
out I learned later these were satellites for the StarLink internet 
program of Elon Musk, the destroyer of astrophotography if you read some 
articles about that program.  So, here is my quick grab shot.  I guess 
there were 60 in all and I got the tail end.

f2.0, 8 sec, ISO 800.  Had to brighten it up quite a bit in LR.

Valley View Stars-1000161 (leica-users.org) 
<http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/s21/y/Valley+View+Stars-1000161.jpg.html> 


Comments welcome.

-- 
Aram Langhans
(Semi) Retired Science Teacher
& Unemployed photographer
  
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson