artifact found with google sky

"Wouter" wrote in message
...
Hi,


This is what I found with google sky.
Who knows what it is? A satellite, plane?

location: 0.027622°, -18.9346°

Wouter




Looks like a green line with some spots :-)
Though to be realistic, it is most likely an aircraft of some sort.

Bob

Bob Holdford schreef:
"Wouter" wrote in message
...
Hi,


This is what I found with google sky.
Who knows what it is? A satellite, plane?

location: 0.027622°, -18.9346°

Wouter




Looks like a green line with some spots :-)
Though to be realistic, it is most likely an aircraft of some sort.

Bob


So this dotted line is maybe accidentely created due to a long exposure
time of some telescope while an aircraft was passing the exposed region
of the sky?
Still a wonder why a green line with dots, a flash light?
I had to 'scroll' deep into the google space to see it. Is the size of
the line with dots realistic having an aircraft flying an altitude of
~10km or so?
I know very little about the way telescopes process data
and the last time a used proper mathematics to solve a problem like this
is 20 years ago so never mind :-(


Wouter

Wasn't it Wouter who wrote:
Bob Holdford schreef:
"Wouter" wrote in message
...
Hi,


This is what I found with google sky.
Who knows what it is? A satellite, plane?

location: 0.027622°, -18.9346°

Wouter




Looks like a green line with some spots :-)
Though to be realistic, it is most likely an aircraft of some sort.

Bob


So this dotted line is maybe accidentely created due to a long exposure
time of some telescope while an aircraft was passing the exposed region
of the sky?
Still a wonder why a green line with dots, a flash light?
I had to 'scroll' deep into the google space to see it. Is the size of
the line with dots realistic having an aircraft flying an altitude of
~10km or so?
I know very little about the way telescopes process data
and the last time a used proper mathematics to solve a problem like this
is 20 years ago so never mind :-(

I don't see the object. However, remember that deep space images are
taken with separate red, blue and green exposures which are merged into
a colour photograph later. Anything that moves and flashes will appear
as a dotted line on one colour channel. For example, a tumbling
satellite in a high orbit might produce a short green dotted line.

--
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure