Snapshot Serengeti Talk

Another spooky ghost streak

  • catxx by catxx

    WoooOOOOoooo

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  • ajg by ajg

    So that's interesting...now I'm thinking on these. It's something moving fast during the flash during the exposure. I like the moth idea - some type of nocturnal bird? The spiralness of the motion is confusing to me...thinking of moth wings flapping and whatnot.

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  • Wolbo by Wolbo

    A bird would be my guess. Plus what looks like a wildebeest on the left.

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  • kosmala by kosmala scientist

    Cool. Maybe a bat?

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  • ajg by ajg

    I found another one - similar. Mine looks like a bat pattern with the wings. I think the one we have here was just at a weird angle so it was difficult to match up flapping arms properly. Here is mine:

    http://talk.snapshotserengeti.org/#/subjects/ASG0007mhd

    Here's the one from this thread:

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    and then mine:

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  • amcleodx by amcleodx

    After finding one myself i've done some investigation, I think it is caused by insects....

    Wikipedia has an article called Rod Optics about this sort of thing showing up in photos.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_(optics)

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  • ajg by ajg

    hahahaha should we start tagging them Skyfish? Get a collection together?

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  • Kailo.B by Kailo.B

    A light like this is always a mammal. All mammals have an area at this back of the eye which shines like this. You can just make out a head.

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  • cseaton by cseaton

    Kailo.B,

    It is the bar with wave pattern in the second frame that the question is about, not the bright dot in all 3 frames.

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