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Got this in one of my sub, this is way too wide to be a satelite trail, do you guys think it's a plane? If not what do you think this is?  |
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Most likely
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What's your focal length? Looks to me like ISS.
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My focal length is 900mm with the reducer, pixel size is 3,76um. Is there a place a could check the iss position? Thanks |
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Bob Lockwood:Médéric Hébert: Thank you, with that I can say for sure it wasn't the ISS |
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Médéric Hébert:Bob Lockwood:Médéric Hébert: How about Tiangong? Not sure if there is a tracker for that. Planes always take up more of my FOV at your focal length. Edit: Found a tracker that includes Tiangong. https://www.astroviewer.net/iss/en/observation-css.php |
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Here's a Cloudy Nights thread with airplanes crossing FOV. https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/760234-airplanes-deep-sky-images/ |
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In short, if it's not the ISS it could be anything. The Goodyear blimp, a plane, a drone, a UAP…
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Tony Gondola: I'll go with the Goodyear blimp XD Ian McIntyre: Too far South to be Tiangong, especially since I was pointing North. There's the local airport not that far away and it's only for smallish planes so maybe on of those Thank you all for the suggestions! |
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Could be a meteor.
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Jon Main: Could be, that would explain why it's tapering a little, it heated up on entry. It also doesn't look like the plane in the CN thread posted earlier. Here's what it looks like stretched  |
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Here's a meteor that passed through my frame a few months ago: https://www.astrobin.com/dg7cej/ |
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Jon Main: That's a really interesting sequence. I don't think I've seen anything like that. A truly lucky image! |
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Jon Main: This looks a lot like what I got! Let's found the 'we got a meteor shot in a frame' group  |
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Médéric Hébert (sgthebert)Jon Main: OK, I'm going to have to run through some of my frames that I was certain was one of the large station goin through. You can really get a sense of what is happening in the stretched image with the dimmer trail. There is a filamentary, almost twisted helical appearance to it that would indicate the trailing of multiple small objects than one solid object; as in a piece that is broken from the main object and in a further state of decomposition. Very interesting. |
