Satellite Videos Posted

From: Derek C Breit (breit_ideas@poyntsource.com)
Date: Thu Aug 18 2011 - 20:14:49 UTC

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    I have posted some Satellite videos I acquired last night to my website.
    http://www.poyntsource.com/New/Gallery.htm
    I purposely link to this page so I can see the hits so I can compare to the amount of work this took. If you spread this around, please do the same.
    
    
    The New videos are at the bottom lower left. They include file sizes for those, like me, who have internet limitations..
    
    
    WARNING and Notes - I do not own a fluid head tripod. Since I try to measure the positions of the sats, I do try and stop to get a stable image I can measure from, but these are not overly smooth, so be prepared.
    
    This is a 50mm Camera lense on a PC164EX2 on a cheap camera tripod. My new IOTA-VTI provides the GPS timestamps. Video is recorded to a Canon ZR300 DV Camcorder and imported into the ThinkPad Edge with a Firewire Express Card. No adjustments of any kind are made.. Remember, I don’t do Pretty Pictures.. ☺
    
    
    
    
    ORS-1
    The bright star at the top left is Alkaid. Note the increase in brightness just before ORS-1 enters the Earth’s Shadow.
    
    NanoSailD
    This is an extracted clip from a much longer video. Essentially from before Cygnus into Cassieopia. I have not be able to ID any stars because this pass is way off the prediction I had.
    
    UME 1
    This is a great video! I was sitting on a point to video EGP so I could capture a non integrated clip to go with the other clips of EGP I have from 2 years ago.. and to add to..
    http://www.poyntsource.com/New/MintronDrift.htm
    
    But this flasher came through the FOV first, flashing brightly every four seconds. I follow it across the sky and all of a sudden it unleashes 2 sets of rapid fire brilliant flashes. When I went to measure it (off of a different clip), it matches the predicted positions for UME-1, but I could be wrong. The rapid flashes occurred at what I perceive as the same azimuth as the Sun, but I have not measured this video because this satellite has a well known orbit.
    
    
    Derek Breit 
    BREIT IDEAS Observatory
    Morgan Hill, CA
    
    
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