Re: Starlink 6-2 Magnitudes Wanted

From: Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_lists.seesatmail.org>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2023 16:40:12 +0200
Op 6-5-2023 om 16:26 schreef Andreas Hornig:

> Yeah, I am at 50.9N and they are not really high above horizon here. So at least
> my hope is that someone else at a lower latitude can have a video and I can just
> help to determine the magnitudes :).
> I do not trust myself in doing that manually so I automated this. With videos
> from Easter holiday, when we were further south, the script works well.

Be aware that camera magnitudes are not the same as visual magnitudes. It
depends per camera type, but most astronomical cameras and the WATEC are usually
tending to be red sensitive and will give you 'fainter' magnitudes than true
visual estimates..

For my WATEC, I mapped the actual measured magnitude (in the "red" band) of a
large number of stars against their catalogue visual magnitude, to come up with
a rough conversion equation to make the photometry compatible with visual
magnitude estimates.

- Marco

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