Hi Everybody

 

Whilst at the beach enjoying the sunset views, a friend of my took a picture of the sunset and showed it to me. Looking at the picture I noticed that there was something that looked like a moon (but much smaller in size) not far from the sun. Surprised, I looked in the direction that the picture was taken but I could not see that moon-like thing so I asked my friend to take another picture. The camera captured the thing again and that's when I realised that the thing was not visible to the necked eye and eversince I have been wondering what that thing is. Is it a star or what?

 

I am interested to know more about this thing. If anyone has a comment, please quench my curiosity.

 

Star or what.bmp

I am not an expert on cameras or photographing but if you couldn't see it with your eyes then I would guess on an artifact made by the camera.

Sounds like lens flare.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lens_flare

Could it be that it was a star that the camera captured but your eyes, pupils contracted from looking at the sunset, couldn't discern?

looking at the photo, it's lens flare.

 

nothing but an artifact of the lenses in the camera.

I see that Venus was showing it's greatest brilliance on April 30th . That would place it in a position apparently very close to the sun as seen from earth.(superior conjunction). I wonder if that was what the camera could discern but what you couldn't because of the sun's brightness? Venus, although not a star, shines more brightly than a star.

 

http://www.absoluteaxarquia.com/nightsky/venus.html

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspects_of_Venus