Question about a satellite I may have imaged

From: matt--- via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:37:34 -0400
Hello, 

I am trying to identify a satellite(?) that I happened to catch cross my
field of view this morning while viewing the sun.  I've tried websites
such as heavens-above, calsky, etc to try to figure out after the fact
what I might have seen, but have been unsuccessful. 

So I have two questions, really: 

1) what would be the "go to" sites with search engines to use to try to
figure this out, if any; and 

2) with the details provided below (hopefully in compliance with the
posting rules), can anyone help identify what I saw?  I did some rough
calcs on my own of size assuming a distance, but would prefer to hear
what those more knowledgeable would say. 

For what it is worth, since I was only getting setup at the time, my
camera orientation wasn't well done.  I was trying to expose for the
prominence and I think I had my frames flipped around.  The sun at that
time, as seen by the GONG sites in H-alpha, can be seen here 

http://halpha.nso.edu/keep/hag/202007/20200702/20200702143834Ah.jpg 

I think in my images "south" near the mid-point of the left side of the
images attached, but I am not confident in saying which direction the
travel was.  The "bump" of a prominence shown is near the bottom of the
images on the GONG site. 

Thanks in advance, 

Matt Considine 

Randolph, VT USA 

1. ID of object: UNKNOWN 

2. Description and dimensions of object (metres), if known. APPEARS TWO
BE TWO CONNECTED PANELS 

3. Observing site location: latitude, longitude, altitude, to nearest
100 m. LAT 43.9508125 LONG -72.6671875 ALT 283m 

4. Date/time of obs: UTC. For single frames, report time to nearest
second. For video, report start time and duration to nearest second. UTC
20200702 14:38:33.011-14:38:33.526 

5. Range to object: UNKNOWN 

6. Telescope: make/model/aperture LUNT 60mm aperture 500mm focal length
***H-alpha*** 

7. Camera: make/model ZWO ASI174MM 

8. Tracking method: hand-guided, or mechanical (make/model): ROUGHLY
TRACKING SUN 

9. Data acquired: total duration, frame rate, exposure per frame,
resolution & bit depth of raw data 

DURATION: 0.515 secs FRAME RATE approx 8fps EXPOSURE 0.64401secs 16BIT
no binning BRIGHTNESS=0 GAIN=0 SOFTWARE  SharpCap 3.2.6248.0 

10. Processing: describe the process of frame-selection and/or
image-processing used to obtain reported results. 

Frames captured using above settings in SharpCap.  No Post processing. 
Acquired in SER file format, with attached frames saved as JPEG.  No
barlow used. 

11. Raw image frames:

No processing has been done to attached images
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