martinastro
Martin Mc Kenna
Global Moderator
Hero Member
Posts: 5182
Maghera, N. Ireland
|
|
« on: September 04, 2008, 02:49:53 pm » |
|
Took a 30 sec exp of Cygnus last night but I wasn't paying attention to the area because I was observing TCrb. When I looked at the image I seen a tumbling sat to the lower L and another streak to the upper L. Is it a meteor or sat?. I can't tell.
|
|
|
|
|
John9929
Global Moderator
Hero Member
Posts: 1105
Maghaberry, N.Ireland.
|
|
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2008, 04:11:14 pm » |
|
My guess Martin would be another satellite. Every night it has been clear I have noticed a few moving through the Cygnus area mostly running south to north.
|
John9929.
|
|
|
Paul
|
|
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2008, 07:07:54 pm » |
|
I can't be sure, but I'd go with satellite. Cygnus seems to be full of them - I took this last night - two of the blighters closing in on Deneb!
|
|
|
|
brianb
|
|
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2008, 07:33:30 pm » |
|
There really do seem to be a lot more satellites these days ... they're all over the place, something of a nuisance in fact - must have had 15 or 20 going through the field of my scope whilst observing last night. Fortunately median or kappa sigma stacking gets rid of them when making star field images with DSS.
|
|
|
|
martinastro
Martin Mc Kenna
Global Moderator
Hero Member
Posts: 5182
Maghera, N. Ireland
|
|
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2008, 09:12:39 pm » |
|
Thanks for the comments guys. The concensus is a sat . That's a very nice image Paul. Incredible detail in there.
|
|
|
|
|
|