Venus & Jupiter, & Two red giants

[dgavin]

Plus False Dawn Cloud Glow, and two unitentified objects.

Image was taken on a cannon powershot x20 3 second exp. then Addative stacked in GnuIMP to 16x. Location Salem, OR 4:05 PDT

The oddest one is the red object was not a red camera pixel, in the unstacked image it's about 12 total pixels. and appears a bit elongated west ward, almost as it it had a tail.

The other unknown I could not match to an object in skycharts, other then it's in the correct spot for vesta, but it seems far to bright to be vesta. I wouldn't think a noraml camera unzoomed would pick Vesta up.

[dgavin]

Anyone happen to have any clues what the two myster objects are?

[RickJ]

They have to be artificial artifacts of some sort. Both are brighter than Aldebaran yet in reality Aldebaran is about 850 times brighter than Vesta and brighter than anything in the area of either of these. Nothing in the area can be close to Aldebaran's brightness which has to be the case for them to show if real. Digital cameras can play lots of tricks both in the taking and in the processing of images. Such defects are quite common.

Rick