It makes a cool picture. --- On Thu, 4/28/11, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> wrote:
From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Care to speculate? (solved) To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Date: Thursday, April 28, 2011, 6:33 PM Bob Elliott on the Minor Planet Mailing List reports that using the data in the FIT header and Bill Gray's Project Pluto Guide 8 program he was able to ID both objects.
The satellite path that does not cross the entire image was created by COSMOS 2422 (http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=29260) while the long path was created by Orbcom FM24 (http://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=25478).
I know there is a bunch of stuff up there (I just checked and saw that as of last month nearly 16,000 objects were being tracked). But it still surprises me that two unrelated objects launched years apart into different orbits would just happen to pass through the same tiny field in so short a time.
Thanks to Bob for tracking down the answer.
patrick
On 28 Apr 2011, at 04:13, Patrick Wiggins wrote:
While taking images of random galaxies tonight I got this of NGC 2681:
FIT http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/NGC_2681_FIT.ZIP
Anyone care to speculate what the streaks are?
The image is about 18 x 26 arc minutes.
60" exposure.
Other details:
C-14 @ f/5.5, ST-10 binned 3x3, cooled to -10, clear
filter.
Just curious,
patrick
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