For two years now, I’ve had a secret hobby. I like to focus my camera on sparkling stars in the night sky, and take videos and still images of them. When I started doing this about two years ago, I came to a number of uncomfortable conclusions. 1) Stars aren’t still. If you take videos of them, it’s obvious that they move. They don’t JUST twinkle. Some move only slightly, while others move in circles like ice skaters. 2) They don’t retain their shape overtime. Over a four-second period, some of them change from white to pink to green, and then disappear for several milliseconds. 3) Sometimes, they contain pixels. 4) Sometimes, they seem take on shapes that resemble faces - hats, beards and all.
I really do try to tell myself that I’m just seeing things, and I realize that I probably am. But, at times like these, I can’t help but wonder how the Greek Myths of gods with personalities came into being. Did they look up and somehow see what comes through for me if I take enough pictures.
This isn’t meant to be a photo montage. I don’t even have all the photos I’ve taken, or even the bulk of them. If they’re really interesting, I usually send them around to friends and then forget all about them. But, not last night! Last night really blew the lid off much of my remaining denial.
Typically, I take a video and then a still image. Then, I expand the image, and keep taking screenshots to see what I can find. It’s sort of like using a zoom lens on a microscope, except that I don’t have a telescope to help me.
I went after a twinkling star again. It was nothing much at first, just tiny and inconsequential, or so I thought.
If you’re not sitting down at this point, it might be a good idea to grab a chair… Here’s what happened when I enlarged the image of the ‘star.’
Oh dear…
Well that’s it! They’re lying to us about EVERYTHING!
This is not any kind of a joke! This is what was literally up in the sky above Southern Ecuador last night. I don’t think anyone else took a still photograph and kept enlarging it like I did. I wish they had.
It has occurred to me that whatever is producing the tech-like images I sometimes see in the sky might have an inkling about what is going on with the tiny, tech-like objects we seem to have down here in our bodies and nearly everything else. After two years of this, I just had to say it!
Gosh I sure hope you're right. The trouble is... I've thought of the pixelation effect before when I've seen stars of different shapes with apparent pixels in them. Sometimes the pixels in images are much stronger than they are in this one. For this reason, I've tried to enlarge other images of other things several times, I don't get any pixelation. Also, I've been doing this same thing a lot for 2 years. This is the very first time I've ever seen a rectangular shape. Usually, weird star shapes with pixels in them, (not all of them have those), look like boxes piled onto each other in bizarre patterns that aren't exactly squares or circles. Thanks for the other information. That could apply to some of what I've seen, but probably just to some. You wouldn't believe how bizarre some of what I've seen has been!
You might get a kick out of recording the new “lightning” storms in slow motion…