Looks to me like threads or spiderwebs laying on your camera's CMOS sensor. Otherwise, a nice picture.

 

Looks really weird, I vote you captured Tinkerbell from Peter pan, And then there is the hook shaped one below? Do you live around a swamp in the south? Fireflys!!

 

Post a full res photo! ???

 

Thanks for the link George, I have never taken or seen an astro photo that has 3 different light tracks running in different directions to each other while the other stars are close to stationary.

 

How long was the exposure? If the shutter opened before the mount was finished moving you may have captured a bright star in the movement. After the mount stopped, it exposed the other stars normally. It looks like more of a bump while clicking the shutter open for the timed exposure. Same thing would have happened. No time for dimmer stars to record at that ISO.

 

Just a guess but it could be insects flying.
Floyd

 

UFOs?

 

I agree with Turk here. If you zoom into the hi-res image, you _will_ see the same squiggles on all the bright stars in the image immediately around the stars. So that rules out fireflies, UFOs, spiders, and the like. The fainter stars do not have these squiggles as the ISO/exposure was not long enough to record these. The 2-3 brightest stars in the image were the only ones bright enough to capture most of this "shake". It is also not a small bump to the tripod/camera given how long the bright trails are (several degrees if not tens of degrees).

My guess - the camera/tripod actually fell or rotated or was inadvertently moved significantly at the start or end of the exposure. The long trails are similar, but not identical, which means that the camera also rotated during this move.

Harry D.

 

Agree with Astrolife. And, it's one for the bit-bucket

 

Makes sense. Darn G-11 or the series II cant replicate this I'm afraid. I also noticed that the star field looks like wallpaper.

 

Definitely a UFO.