Years Later, Still..What Is It?

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Ok folks, this wasn't found in the ground..but in the air! (afterward upon viewing on pc). Ten years at least or more since (guessing), I took this pic of a plane descending from west to east to Toronto Pearsons Airport ('very' educated guess)...from atop Stone Quarry. All I seen was...."the sun and the plane"!!....this pic is what I got. Any knowledgeable "Star Hunters" on TN here care to help?... :)
 

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Reflection off the plane and a contrail from a higher one. The red is from impurities in the lens glass or lens coating.
 

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Charlie P. (NY) said:
Reflection off the plane and a contrail from a higher one. The red is from impurities in the lens glass or lens coating.
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That's odd CP, I've 3 photos (in sequence) seconds apart in the same stance, without shifting..and my other pics have nothing like this? I see 'contrails' (vaporized water/condensation) expelled from jet engines all the time/everyday..they evaporate very very quickly from behind the jets tails.
 

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OK. Sky squid holding a spear and a lens aberration.

You won't be happy until you tell us what YOU think it is so spill it.

But I worked for Anitec/Ilford for 17-1/2 years, sold cameras before that and owned a Nikon Photomic F2A and had my own darkroom, and have seen all sorts of lens aberrations; and yours does nothing much for me.

We used to call images like that "mistakes".
 

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Charlie P. (NY) said:
OK. Sky squid holding a spear and a lens aberration.

You won't be happy until you tell us what YOU think it is so spill it.

But I worked for Anitec/Ilford for 17-1/2 years, sold cameras before that and owned a Nikon Photomic F2A and had my own darkroom, and have seen all sorts of lens aberrations; and yours does nothing much for me.

We used to call images like that "mistakes".
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Come on!...I'm asking questions OK!...you said "contrails from plane above" right? If you'd have asked me first..there wasn't anything in the sky above...And, why I know about jet engines...my uncle built them for the Avero Arrow! (yes, still alive in his 90s)
 

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I still believe it is an asteroid exploding after entering our upper atmosphere. You have a very unique photo!
 

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The Arrow was 25 years ahead of it's time and an incedible jet (the program killed by ICBMs replacing Soviet bombers.)

But. Not knowing where you were standing, where the sun was, what you were looking at or why you chose the lens settings you did or the quality of the lens itself it is hard to say just what happened in your image.
 

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old digger said:
I still believe it is an asteroid exploding after entering our upper atmosphere. You have a very unique photo!
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Hey there old digger..just saying 'I've no idea still' haha...everything in pic is traveling from the northwest to the southeast from where I took the pic?..no glare seems to be coming "at" my camera/lens..but traveling broadside/to the right..away from it? Odd.
 

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Hi.

This is indeed flare, due to aiming at the sun.

Here's another example, with a statue of Albert Einstein.

Nothing abnormal, thus, there is a group on Flickr colleting such pictures.

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Charlie P. (NY) said:
The Arrow was 25 years ahead of it's time and an incedible jet (the program killed by ICBMs replacing Soviet bombers.)

But. Not knowing where you were standing, where the sun was, what you were looking at or why you chose the lens settings you did or the quality of the lens itself it is hard to say just what happened in your image.
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Sorry, but the worlds first supersonic jet invented/built and flown here didn't have its "program killed", it was...how shall I say it..."Moved" from here..and, not by the Soviets! hint hint. That....is from the "horses mouth/who was there"!!...not History Channel/or writings in a book.
 

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Olegrumpy said:
Hi.

This is indeed flare, due to aiming at the sun.

Here's another example, with a statue of Albert Einstein.

Nothing abnormal, thus, there is a group on Flickr colleting such pictures.

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Hi Olegrumpy, thanks for the pic but it doesn't show any weird anomaly "behind" the sun? that's what puzzles me.
 

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Well the flare on your pic seems to be behind the sun because it's a reflection on a different internal lenses or lens groups. It's brighter, that explains it. Pretty sure of that, although I'm better at metal detecting lol !

Have a nice day !

Grumpy
 

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Olegrumpy said:
Well the flare on your pic seems to be behind the sun because it's a reflection on a different internal lenses or lens groups. It's brighter, that explains it. Pretty sure of that, although I'm better at metal detecting lol !

Have a nice day !

Grumpy
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So Grumpy...do cheap old cellphone cameras have that "lens stuff" you mention? haha! (that's what took the pic)
 

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