Re: Question about a satellite I may have imaged

From: Bob King via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2020 10:08:49 -0500
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
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