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- Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:30 pm
- 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 ...
- Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:53 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD 'Meteor Wiggling'
- Replies: 4
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