Hi: I was imaging last evening north of NGC 1981. I am at 25.6554°N, 80.3503°W, imaging 20:04:11 to 20:10:01 EST on 3-16-08. I apologize that my graphics stink on YouTube (haven't quite mastered the 640 x 480 standard when making "slides"), but multiple geostationary satellite passes are shown (purple lines) transiting west-to-east at the time I was imaging. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gZDpxeeEWPY My question is simply this: how can all of these satellites, whichever one I captured, be moving across my FOV? I thought this type of satellite appeared to be hovering over one location? Software Bisque's TheSky planetarium software even shows the geostationary satellites moving via an animation in real time. Each of my CCD images were 10 seconds in duration, and I assembled an .avi clip to document the 6 minute transit over my 64 arc-minute FOV. Thank you for an explanation. Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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