Yet another clear night last night – almost unbelievable. So as I had just removed the narrowband filters from the 200mm lenses and replaced them with the UV/IR cut filters, I had rather creased myself and wasn’t sure what to image. Just because it was in a suitable position in the sky I chose the Meissa nebulosity sitting at the top of Orion, and I managed to get 24 x 10-minute subs on the region. A fairly boring image resulted and I think the blue glow around the central stars was high cloud/water vapour – but I’ll check on that.
However, keeping an eye on the downloads I did spot a pulsing light on 2 of the subs. As it appeared on both cameras it was clearly not an electronics glitch. I processed those 2 subs separately and cropped down to the pulsing light – North is to the right. Looks like a tumbling piece of space junk but I’m no expert on these things and it could just as easily be Aliens 🙂
