Observation by Steve Knight: Geostationary satellites

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Steve Knight

Observer

Steve Knight

Observed

2017 Mar 25 - 01:00

Uploaded

2017 Mar 28 - 15:55

Objects

Spica

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Constellation

Virgo

Field centre

RA: 13^h17^m
Dec: -06°11'
Position angle: -2°07'

Field size

15° × 15°

Equipment

Canon 6D
Samyang 85mm f1.4 lens
Astrotrac

Exposure

5 sec, ISO 3200 (83 exposures stacked over 10 min)

Location

Moreton Pinkney

Target name

Geostationary Satellites, Jupiter, Spica

Title

Geostationary satellites

About this image

Not strictly speaking astronomy but the Geostationary Satellites made an interesting foreground for Jupiter & Spica.

Files associated with this observation

Geostationary compressed.jpg (1.5 MB)

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David Basey, Mike Olason, Jeremy Shears, Peter Carson, Chris Hooker

Comments

Mike Olason, 2017 Mar 29 - 10:24 UTC

Steve, I have had the misfortune several times of having GEOs passing through long comet exposures. This is the first time that I have seen them in color. Very nice image. Mike

Steve Knight, 2017 Apr 06 - 17:51 UTC

Thanks Mike, it was taken as an experiment. They must be rather than large as brighter than I expected. Used an 85mm lens which was good as I made a schoolboy error of forgetting to factor in the fact that we are well above the equator. Camera was pointing at celestial equator. This is cropped.

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