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by jscotti
Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:52 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Another Strange Streak
Replies: 6
Views: 5649

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...
by jscotti
Thu Feb 03, 2005 2:21 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Kitt Peak (KP) CONCAM status
Replies: 30
Views: 22344

The Kitt Peak Concam has been down since January 26. Its last image is from that morning. Any idea when it might be back online?

Jim.