This evening I was trying to capture a few seconds of video of Jupiter using
a 150 mm reflector with webcam at the focal point of the telescope.
As Jupiter dropped below my horizon I turned my attention to the Moon and
left the video recording.On reviewing the tape I noticed that around 2120
gmt an object crosses the N E quadrant of the Moon (somewhere south of Mare
Crisium ) from S./west to N/east very quickly.The images at not helped by
the fact that at the time I was panning slowly from east to west across the
lunar surface.
Having failed to capture the sequence in Real Video format , I have managed
to break the transit down into a sequence of 5 bitmaps.
Position here is 53.2325 N 3.53 W (Wirral UK)
I would be interested to know if this could have been a LEO
sat.....although of course it may have been a high flying bird !
Magnification is hard to estimate , however I would guess somewhere in the
region of 250X
Many thanks.
John.
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John locker
G7MIZ
Satellite and Communications Consultant
Freelance Journalist and contributor What Satellite TV:Better Satellite
Tele-Satellite International : Shortwave Magazine .
Presenter of SpaceNews from Liverpool ( DrDish@TV )
http://www.satcom.freeserve.co.uk
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