Hi Matt, This is an internal reflection of some sort rather than a satellite. Much too big to be a satellite as has been pointed out already. I also have an H-alpha setup (Daystar) and occasionally have to deal with internal reflections from the filter, optical system, etc. Bob On Thu, Jul 2, 2020 at 12:39 PM matt--- via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to identify a satellite(?) that I happened to catch cross my > field of view this morning while viewing the sun. I've tried websites > such as heavens-above, calsky, etc to try to figure out after the fact > what I might have seen, but have been unsuccessful. > > So I have two questions, really: > > 1) what would be the "go to" sites with search engines to use to try to > figure this out, if any; and > > 2) with the details provided below (hopefully in compliance with the > posting rules), can anyone help identify what I saw? I did some rough > calcs on my own of size assuming a distance, but would prefer to hear > what those more knowledgeable would say. > > For what it is worth, since I was only getting setup at the time, my > camera orientation wasn't well done. I was trying to expose for the > prominence and I think I had my frames flipped around. The sun at that > time, as seen by the GONG sites in H-alpha, can be seen here > > http://halpha.nso.edu/keep/hag/202007/20200702/20200702143834Ah.jpg > > I think in my images "south" near the mid-point of the left side of the > images attached, but I am not confident in saying which direction the > travel was. The "bump" of a prominence shown is near the bottom of the > images on the GONG site. > > Thanks in advance, > > Matt Considine > > Randolph, VT USA > > 1. ID of object: UNKNOWN > > 2. Description and dimensions of object (metres), if known. APPEARS TWO > BE TWO CONNECTED PANELS > > 3. Observing site location: latitude, longitude, altitude, to nearest > 100 m. LAT 43.9508125 LONG -72.6671875 ALT 283m > > 4. Date/time of obs: UTC. For single frames, report time to nearest > second. For video, report start time and duration to nearest second. UTC > 20200702 14:38:33.011-14:38:33.526 > > 5. Range to object: UNKNOWN > > 6. Telescope: make/model/aperture LUNT 60mm aperture 500mm focal length > ***H-alpha*** > > 7. Camera: make/model ZWO ASI174MM > > 8. Tracking method: hand-guided, or mechanical (make/model): ROUGHLY > TRACKING SUN > > 9. Data acquired: total duration, frame rate, exposure per frame, > resolution & bit depth of raw data > > DURATION: 0.515 secs FRAME RATE approx 8fps EXPOSURE 0.64401secs 16BIT > no binning BRIGHTNESS=0 GAIN=0 SOFTWARE SharpCap 3.2.6248.0 > > 10. Processing: describe the process of frame-selection and/or > image-processing used to obtain reported results. > > Frames captured using above settings in SharpCap. No Post processing. > Acquired in SER file format, with attached frames saved as JPEG. No > barlow used. > > 11. Raw image frames: > > No processing has been done to attached images > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sun Jul 05 2020 - 11:38:36 UTC
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