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- Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:52 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Another Strange Streak
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Your trail is almost certainly a geosynchronous satellite. From mid norhtern latitudes, the parallax for a geostationary satellite puts them at around -5 or -6 degrees declination. If you tracked on the stars, they will drift in RA approximately the length of the exposure (i.e., a 5 minute, or 300 s...
- Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:21 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Kitt Peak (KP) CONCAM status
- Replies: 30
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