2004-05-12 - Sydney (NSW, Australia) - Light

Infra red light photographs (invisible) taken over 4 days may 04 and I day january 05 in same location

http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/vclips440/album?.dir=/b14a http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/vclips440/album?.dir=/6ae2 the above links are photographs. In May last year I was photographing the moon using an slr mounted on a tripod, cable release, 70mm lens, 400 asa film. The exposure times varied between less than a second to maybe 1 minute, you can tell by the streaks left by the stars. when I took the photographs there was nothing in the sky, when I had got them back, there was a very unmistakeable light near the moon. In the first photo it was directly in line with the moon, then as the moon moved in its orbit the light stayed where it was, which was for something like 15 20 minutes which can be vairifed by the amount of motion of the moon. The photographs were developed at a commerical lab the original preview is included.

the next night I did the same, this time the moon rose later and so was in a completely different spot. When I got the photos back there was the light again obviously infra red or similar. Again it was near the moon and therefore had to move their to be in the photo. The next night I did the same but there was no light, then the night after I again photographed the moon and it was back again, and again in a completely different positon but still near the moon. those photographs are in the first album. to give some perspective, I have included a photo of the moon taken with a 400mm lens, it is still samller than the light and nowhere near as bright. You will also notice that in the photo of the moon the background is very dark and there are no stars visible and no trees or clouds visible even though I included trees in the shot to gain some perspective. This means that the light needed to be close enough to light the trees, as well as provide the added light energy to make the stars visible.

In the second album the photographs were taken in january this year, there were similar exposure times some shorter some a little longer yet it is much brighter and obviously closer as it clearly lights up the roof and trees, you can see clouds and stars and the background is visible unlike the moon photos that are just black. again I have included the original preview from the photo lab which is a different lab again, I also have the original film. These were taken at a completely different angle and you can see how much closer the light is.