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Originally Posted by cashflyer
My honest guess is that the V and W shape are caused by your heartbeat while holding the camera, and that what you were seeing was either a synchronous satellite, a binary star, or a regular star's light being affected by the atmosphere.
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The shots were around 1/60th to 1/20th of a sec exposure. I had the elbows propped up on a ledge, held the camera close to my body, and held my breath for the shots.
Others that were longer exposures that I have were done with a tripod. Unless I ran a marathon, I don't think my heart beat is that fast!
That said - there is definitely some instability in the shots.
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Originally Posted by Tervuren
Definitely a round shape being affected by your camera motion. Frankly, that's pretty steady work there to get what you did. ^^
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Thank you! The hardest part is that at full zoom (200 mm in this case), stability is greatly compromised... What I find interesting is the same 'V' formation in the first two shots (and a little bit in the third)- even if I were unsteady with the camera, it would be near impossible to duplicate the same pattern. I'll post some longer exposure shots which I took on a tripod - but the exposure was a bit too long to see anything clearly...
-Z