[Leica] UFOs?

[Don Dory]

Time to start binging on the 1950's sci- fi movies.

On Sat, May 22, 2021, 1:53 PM Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
wrote:

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