****** Once I post my video, the starting point is the only actual star in the FOV at the middle right (ignore the two hot pixels..) is the first star back from Polaris in the Little Dipper... Mag 4.3 TYC 4655-1053.. and the time from each frame is clear for the center of the frame.. If split into fields, each time stamp is for the end of the field.. ****** While not as exciting as the last one, it does show one thing plainly.. SPEED.. I also made a big mistake in such tough conditions. I didn't use my 29" monitor and the 13" I did use was too far away, so I could only see that the satellite was on the screen. It was not dark at all at 7PM..I did try to stop moving every so often to try and make it look better and show some stars so it could be measured.. But it's not my best effort, but it's not bad either.. and only 17+ MB.. Bottom of right column.. http://www.poyntsource.com/New/Gallery.htm I did do one thing this time. I looked up and watched it 5 times.. I have ALWAYS wanted to see a screaming satellite. After being advised that these passes were not as good as the night before, I was looking first and videotaping second.. I would guess I could find 15 stars in the whole sky, but ROSAT was as bright as Vega, decidedly orange... And blazing fast.. Awesome! Derek BREIT IDEA Obs Morgan Hill _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Oct 21 2011 - 03:56:06 UTC