Re: Pictures
Ed Cannon (JRBURCA@aol.com)
Thu, 2 Jul 1998 22:15:50 EDT
I'm posting for beginners:
I found this "Observing Earth Satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO)" for
beginners:
http://www.erols.com/roelle/birdwatch/observe-leo.html
It was linked to from Jeff Hunt's Page:
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/8703/
BTW, most pictures you find showing satellites across the night sky
will be time lapse pictures. It will show a track across the sky; not
really what you will see; what you will see is a slowly moving star-like
object travelling in a straight line. *Roughly speaking*, it should be visible
from 30 sec. to a couple of minutes depending on how soon you acquire
it and when or if it enters into the Earth's shadow and depending on the
observer-satellite-sun angles resulting in degree of brightness (magnitude)
and depending on the darkness of the sky.
-- Jake Rees