Timed satellite observation for CCD imagers

By the use of a mechanical shutter in combination with the clear/expose/readout cycle of a CCD camera, multiple images of an artificial satellite or a closely passing Near Earth Object can be obtained, enabling improved astrometric positions and orbital parameters of such objects to be determined.

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