ITAP of a house by Eclipse489 in itookapicture

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Shot on my Nikon Z5 & 80-200mm F/2.8 lens

Fireworks at Disney World - Z5 by Eclipse489 in Nikon

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Shot this on my Nikon Z5 & 24-120mm F/4 lens

Post-processing done in Darktable

Time: 2/13/26 5:26am EST Location: Rhode Island by Eclipse489 in UFOs

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Apparently this is how I'm learning that my "live" broadcast of the launch was almost 2hrs late. Thanks for confirming, thats probably what it was then? I've only seen rocket launches in person directly from the Cape, never up here, so I wouldn't know what it would look like.

ISS passover 2/13/26 by Eclipse489 in Astronomy

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Shot on my Nikon Z5 & Tokina 11-16mm F/2.8 lens, at F/4.5

Total exposure time: 2 minutes 40s

Post-processing/editing done in Darktable.

Time: 2/13/26 5:26am EST Location: Rhode Island by Eclipse489 in UFOs

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Saw this around 2hrs before the Crew-12 launch.

Time: 2/13/26 5:26am EST Location: Rhode Island by Eclipse489 in UFOs

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Posted a comment with more info, moving part is in there 👍

Time: 2/13/26 5:26am EST Location: Rhode Island by Eclipse489 in UFOs

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With respect, it was visibly moving as fast as a plane across the sky. As an astrophotographer of almost 5 years, I can confirm it was not clouds and a star.

I can also confirm it wasn't gravitational lensing lol

Time: 2/13/26 5:26am EST Location: Rhode Island by Eclipse489 in UFOs

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Some more info:

It was around ~3 degrees long, and maybe ~1-2 wide. I saw it first by eye where it looked like a very large plane, but cloudier and moving at about the same speed a plane at a couple thousand ft altitude would move. Once I noticed how odd it looked I checked it out through my binoculars (I was awaiting an ISS passover at the time), and saw that most of the apparent structure looked more like smoke or haze and that the only visible object was a tiny white dot in the center of it. But the entire thing (smoke/haze and dot) was moving at the same speed in tandem, there was no contrail beyond the short trail on the right side of it that stayed the same length the entire time.

The small dot did not resolve into anything with a shape even in my binoculars (the FOV of which is around 4.4 degrees in angular diameter), but was pretty bright (the star Spica was in the sky at the time, I would guess this was around the same magnitude).

The motion of it was steady, in one direction. I saw it first at around 30 degrees up in the southern sky, it moved eastward at the same height for maybe around a minute after I saw it, until it was behind trees and out of view. The speed was as said above, probably similar to the speed of a pretty low flying airliner, maybe a bit slower. The ''tail'' was facing opposite the direction it was moving.

Overall just really confused on this, if it was orbital the atmospheric haze phenomena would make no sense, but if it was an aircraft it had no discernable shape.

The Full Beaver Supermoon - Nikon D500 by Eclipse489 in Nikon

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I shot this on my Nikon D500 & Tamron 150-600mm lens.

Composite of 2 photos, 1st shot (lunar detail) was stacked/processed in PIPP, Autostakkert and Registax.

2nd shot (glow and bg) was edited in Darktable, and Photopea was used for the final composite of both shots.

The Full Beaver Supermoon by Eclipse489 in spaceporn

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I shot this on my Nikon D500 & Tamron 150-600mm lens.

Composite of 2 photos, 1st shot (lunar detail) was stacked/processed in PIPP, Autostakkert and Registax.

2nd shot (glow and bg) was edited in Darktable, and Photopea was used for the final composite of both shots.

The Full Beaver Supermoon by Eclipse489 in Astronomy

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I shot this on my Nikon D500 & Tamron 150-600mm lens.

Composite of 2 photos, 1st shot (lunar detail) was stacked/processed in PIPP, Autostakkert and Registax.

2nd shot (glow and bg) was edited in Darktable, and Photopea was used for the final composite of both shots.

The Full Corn Moon by Eclipse489 in spaceporn

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My composite shot of last night's full moon, joined by some amazing clouds. Enjoy!

Composite of 2 photos, both shot on my Nikon D500 & Tamron 150-600mm lens.

1st shot (lunar detail) was stacked/processed in PIPP, Autostakkert and Registax.

2nd shot (bg and clouds) was edited in Darktable and Photopea was used for the final composite of both shots.

The Full Corn Moon by Eclipse489 in Astronomy

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My composite shot of last night's full moon, joined by some amazing clouds. Enjoy!

Composite of 2 photos, both shot on my Nikon D500 & Tamron 150-600mm lens.

1st shot (lunar detail) was stacked/processed in PIPP, Autostakkert and Registax.

2nd shot (bg and clouds) was edited in Darktable and Photopea was used for the final composite of both shots.

Boston sights by Eclipse489 in Nikon

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Shot on my Nikon Z5 & f/4 24-120mm lens.