Hi there! My name is Michel Tournay, I'm a northern light phototographer working in the north part of Canada and recently, I saw something strange in the sky: I saw and photographed something in the sky that was very slow...it took one hour to go from the horizon to the zenith ! I regularely see regular satellites passing at normal satellite speed, but this one made me think it was a rock (thinking satellites never made eliptic orbits!) I tried looking in a satellite tracking site and they didn't have it!!! It was on sept 17th 2009 at 02:23 AM local time just below the orion nebulae. exposure time was 13 seconds long at 8000 ASA with a 300mm f2.8 lens and at that sensitivity the thing made a very thin line! I did 140 pictures trying to follow it when it was at the zenith, the lines on the picture got a lot smaller than the ones on the horizon done with the same exposure times...so an elliptic orbit? I was in Chisasibi, Canada at about: 53.8 N -78.9 W I saw in the rules that i cant put a picture or mention a website...that's a tough one if you want to see it and see the trajectory to help you find what it was...eh just punch my name on a popular search engin and you'll be directed to a space weather website that hosts astro pictures and you should find it there in my gallery PS the time was 2:23 and not 01:23 like I wrote on the text and the picture...I'll have to change that..sorry! what was that? Thanks for your time! Michel Tournay ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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