Astrophotography: What did I just capture?

@vellarco said in #2:
> its lightning
> EUREKA!

It looks like a lightning but it isn't a lightning I guess?!

@JoshuaChess6 Then, it wouldn't be silent. When Zeus is angry and causes a storm, it's supposed to be really loud.

i would say that it was thor

i think it's a shooting star.

@Happygurl28

No, then Google Lens would have identified it.

A huge solar storm effect?

This is the moon. I'd say it is a case of long exposure time together with you moving your phone during taking the pic. Look at the dark objects in your pic. They all have a slight blur going from the upper left to the lower right, just like the moon.

Check the EXIF data of the original image. There you can see the exposure time. My guess is it is longer than 1/4th of a second.

It's just the phone has moved during the long exposure

Hmmm there can be many explanation to this but it can be a rare natural phenomenon i.e, positive lighting @Mantram_PateL . The lightning we see is because of the potential difference caused by high negative energy formed in clouds than the ground that's why electrons move. But if it's positive lighting then it's something different than the natural positive lighting. Although, I don't know much about it.

@TheAstroGuy said in #18:
> It's just the phone has moved during the long exposure

I also think so @TheAstroGuy is right