I just opened up this image I took on December 17 at 9:30 PM. It is of the area around Beta Tauri. I just noticed a fuzzy object about a degree and a half north-west of Alnath that at first I thought was a star.

Nvm lol. I had just accidently painted a dot with the fuzzy brush tool on Photoshop. For a split second when I had just uploaded the image I was thinking: "Holy crud! It's gone! The government must be trying to hide something!" until common sense came back to me a moment later and I pressed "Undo brush tool" on photoshop. Lol, I'm not a UFO conspiracy theorist!
Here's the image anyway. I need to work on polar aligning and focusing. The telephoto lens I got as a gift is okay for astrophotograpy.

[quote=Siguy;1137138]I just opened up this image I took on December 17 at 9:30 PM. It is of the area around Beta Tauri. I just noticed a fuzzy object about a degree and a half north-west of Alnath that at first I thought was a star.

Nice picture. What was the exposure and focal length? My guess is several minutes and f=135mm, since the stellar magnitudes go deeper than +12. If the focal length is 135 mm, then the plate scale would be 10 arcsec per pixel. With a one minure exposure most satellites should move visibly with that plate scale. I stretch the picture in Photoshop and still don't see anything unusual other than some blue flair around beta Tau. How many pixels relative to beta Tau are you looking?

Take a picture of the same location next time you have the opportunity and see of the mystery object is still there.

hha

[quote=hha1;1137502]Read my whole post. The "mystery object" doesn't exist. Also, the focal length was 300mm.