Simply because your telescope/camera is not fixed. As the Earth rotates to the E, 1.5 degrees in the 6 minutes, your scope follows the stars that appear to move to the W. If you stop your mount, you will get nice bright geosat dots, with fainter star trails "moving". http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle/02252200r.jpg is one of my geoflare images, with a EOS 400D camera on a tripod, 60s. (This was posted soon after yours - but I was using my other 'From' address, not the one I was connected to!) ----- Original Message ----- >... 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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