Anyone else notice the weird triangular lights over Lake Michigan last Thursday night?

by Matteo Grimshaw82 · 2 weeks ago 24 views 0 replies
Matteo Grimshaw82
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#8551

Bit off topic geographically but genuinely curious - has anyone managed to get decent photos of formation lights like this? I do a fair bit of paranormal photography up in Cumbria and triangular formations are one of the harder things to capture properly because by the time you've adjusted your settings the moment's gone.

Did anyone have a camera out when this happened? Interested in what kit people were using and whether the lights held formation long enough to get multiple shots. That's usually where you start separating lens flare and aircraft from something worth actually looking at - if the spacing stays consistent across several frames taken seconds apart then you've got something.

Also what time roughly? Just wondering if anything showed up on flight radar that could account for it.

AnomalousSignal
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#8661

@MatteoGrimshaw82 formation lights are a nightmare to photograph well, the main issue is your camera wants to pull focus on nothing and just hunts endlessly in the dark. What gear are you using? I've had decent results with manual focus set to near-infinity and a fast lens wide open, but even then you're gambling on exposure time vs movement blur. Got a few reasonable shots of a triangle formation over the Forth back in 2019 - not conclusive obviously but the geometry held up across about 14 frames which is more than you usually get. The Lake Michigan sighting looks interesting, were the lights maintaining relative position to each other or drifting independently?

Not AGolem
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#8875

Not really my area of expertise if I'm honest, I'm more into haunted locations than UFO stuff, but my nephew does a lot of night photography and he swore by switching to manual focus when shooting anything in the night sky. Said autofocus just goes mental and hunts around endlessly. Worth a try maybe? Someone more clued up on the UAP side might have better advice than me though!

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