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[quote=Chris Taylor]While going though images of (attempted) perseids on ThursdayPM/FridayAM
I've noticed a slow moving object. The FOV of the images are about 24 x 30 Deg and each image had an exposure time of 30 seconds. The object took 4 frames to move across the FOV, so, a minimum of 2 minutes to cover about 20 degrees of sky. I'm still going through the images and haven't had a chance to splice or catch detail wrt exact times although they'd be on the RAW image data. I'm guessing its no plane, and I've not seen a satellite move this slowly. Do asteroids move this slowly, or indeed this fast? or could it be a medium to high altitude satellite. Or perhaps a conspiracy theory waiting to happen..... Chris Chris - the Russians use[d] highly ecentric orbits for some communication satellites [from high 'tundra' latitudes where geostationary sats are below the local horizon] which at apogee move very slowly across the sky. Try "molynia sats" in Google. Nytecam Last edited by nytecam : August 14th 05 at 09:01 AM. |
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