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01/13/2005 10:30:45 AM · #1 |
I was out this morning taking photo of the big dipper, I did not notice, when I was taking this photo, that a satellite was in the field of while I was doing the exposure. This was a 10 second exposure so the satellite was moving pretty slow.
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01/13/2005 10:37:35 AM · #2 |
That's cool.
Some time last year I was looking at Orion with my C5, and a satellite crossed through my field of view. I went and looked up what was moving in that area at that time, and it was an old Russian rocket stage that was still in orbit.
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01/13/2005 10:43:25 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by cpurser:
That's cool.
Some time last year I was looking at Orion with my C5, and a satellite crossed through my field of view. I went and looked up what was moving in that area at that time, and it was an old Russian rocket stage that was still in orbit.
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I was so thrilled the first time I found out that you could see satellites from earth when someone pointed one out to me a few years ago...but this is even more intriguing!
How/Where can I look it up?
Edit: And Scott, can you look up what satellite that was...just out of curiosity...
Message edited by author 2005-01-13 10:43:48.
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01/13/2005 10:44:52 AM · #4 |
Pretty cool... for now. I'm sure this is just as much of a novelty today as finding a jet contrail was in a sunset picture 40 years ago. In another 20 years, photographers will be cursing all the satellite trails messing up their astrophotos.
BTW- you haven't lived until you've been hunched over a big scope studying the detail on a faint galaxy... and a firefly lands on your corrector lens. Yipes! |
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01/13/2005 10:48:18 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
Originally posted by cpurser:
That's cool.
Some time last year I was looking at Orion with my C5, and a satellite crossed through my field of view. I went and looked up what was moving in that area at that time, and it was an old Russian rocket stage that was still in orbit.
Chad |
I was so thrilled the first time I found out that you could see satellites from earth when someone pointed one out to me a few years ago...but this is even more intriguing!
How/Where can I look it up?
Edit: And Scott, can you look up what satellite that was...just out of curiosity... |
Try Space Junk. I searched for that term and that was the first site, but there are others. |
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01/13/2005 12:47:05 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by thatcloudthere:
Originally posted by cpurser:
That's cool.
Some time last year I was looking at Orion with my C5, and a satellite crossed through my field of view. I went and looked up what was moving in that area at that time, and it was an old Russian rocket stage that was still in orbit.
Chad |
I was so thrilled the first time I found out that you could see satellites from earth when someone pointed one out to me a few years ago...but this is even more intriguing!
How/Where can I look it up?
Edit: And Scott, can you look up what satellite that was...just out of curiosity... |
I used
//www.heavens-above.com
and input the appropriate time to see what was visible in that part of the sky.
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01/13/2005 12:50:24 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Pretty cool... for now. I'm sure this is just as much of a novelty today as finding a jet contrail was in a sunset picture 40 years ago. In another 20 years, photographers will be cursing all the satellite trails messing up their astrophotos.
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You're exactly right.
In the name of progress, Amen.
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