Streakers on The Great Orion Nebula, JimH123 note.. I caught something kind of odd in my looping run tonight (Orion). Side by side streaks like JimH123 caught in one of his images.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

I caught something kind of odd in my looping run tonight (Orion).
Side by side streaks like JimH123 caught in one of his images.
Tomorrow I'm going to try and make a video of them for my Youtube channel to share.
I was able to save 4 of the 6 before the program decided to stop. Lost the other two, and all the rest of about 65 images.
When I got it running again, I caught another 'streak'. I'm wondering what the heck is going on.
Ah heck, I couldn't wait.

http://youtu.be/4tHhWivVmjQ

I suggest the full screen mode...

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

SonnyE wrote:

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Geostationary Satellites. I get them all the time.
Not space ships, not missiles heading for your house.
Satellites is all.
There is one patch that has 5 of them that looks pretty neat when you track through them.

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-263394-1.html

Jim

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

Geostationary Satellites. I get them all the time.
Not space ships, not missiles heading for your house.
Satellites is all.
There is one patch that has 5 of them that looks pretty neat when you track through them.

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-263394-1.html

Jim

No, not geosynchronous. Those guys are 25,000 miles up and hold a constant spot in the sky. If you are not tracking, they will be point sources. If you are tracking, they will have star trails while the stars do not. But the streaks will be short similar to what you see when not tracking. And there is only one plane of orbit that they can do this in and that is directly over the equator.

It is more probable that these are low orbit satellites or space junk. The fact that they appear side by side is probably just coincidental. In my image, the streaks were faint and traversed a long distance. There is a lot of space junk up there. Star Trek would have to keep their shields up when orbiting this outer space junkyard.

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

Oops - Double hit.

Bloke Loc: Waynesboro, Pennsylvania

SonnyE wrote:

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I agree, these are just regular satellites. There are *tons* of them up there. A few years ago, I found a dark site for observing, although I didn't have photo gear worth using. I 'discovered' whole bunches of these critters going over, several per hour. Of course, the ISS is real obvious and spectacular, as is the Hubble, but there are huge numbers of others orbiting around up there, GPS, Iridium...

There is also a huge amount of junk, but I am not sure that you would see that, since most of it is much smaller.

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

SonnyE wrote:

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That is really cool Sonny, nice work.
Are they meteors???
Craig

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

I think Bloke wins the gold ring...
I discovered a 'Satellite Hints' in Stellarium that shows a ton of space junk overhead. (Right next to the slew control..)
Zooming in shows these tin cans flying right through the Orion Nebula. (Figuratively speekink..)
There is an amazing amount of crap up there!

Woo-Hoo! Coming up on my first image attempt of the Helix Nebula... oh... uh, never-mind.
I tried a little Kentucky Windage on the first attempt. Um, that didn't work.
Shot two.... :lol:
(And away we go...)

KV Aqr, the bright star here... 1000 second exposure. Alignment appears to be tracking good. ;)

Right where I aimed it... off over thar>

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Green? Mossy skies...

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Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

SonnyE wrote:

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I'm going to try and ply my case one last time.
Here is a link to one of my earlier shots that Algol researched and his conclusions at that time.

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-261975-1.html

I still think they are stationary since they are well streaked due to the mount movement and everything else is pretty sharp.

:shock:

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

OK, so if they are stationary in relation to the Earth, then my targets fly over them.
In Stellarium, which I realize is a post processed version of the skies so it is probably massaged :twisted:, they appeared to be moving.
False alarm! False Alarm!
I'm still not driving too far because I don't want to fall off the edge of the Earth. :shock: :-o :-(
Me stars are still pretty round, matie. :-D

Now that we appear to be over the flu here, I think I'll follow Craig's lead and see if I can get a shot at the Crab Nebula tonight. :mrgreen:
I really need to figure out where stuff is and when... :roll:

nikonshooter Loc: Spartanburg, South Carolina

SonnyE wrote:

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Meteors

JimH123 Loc: Morgan Hill, CA

Albuqshutterbug wrote:

I'm going to try and ply my case one last time.
Here is a link to one of my earlier shots that Algol researched and his conclusions at that time.

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-261975-1.html

I still think they are stationary since they are well streaked due to the mount movement and everything else is pretty sharp.

:shock:

Yes, I agree they are geosynchronous orbit satellites also. And amazing that Sonny was able to see them. They are 22,236 miles above the equator. And if you add the offset north to Santa Barbara, they are even farther away. They do appear as very faint traces, and they should be very faint at that distance.

I saw some parallel tracks in an image too, but my tracks were very long and could not have been geosynchronous.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

JimH123 wrote:

Yes, I agree they are geosynchronous orbit satellites also. And amazing that Sonny was able to see them. They are 22,236 miles above the equator. And if you add the offset north to Santa Barbara, they are even farther away. They do appear as very faint traces, and they should be very faint at that distance.

I saw some parallel tracks in an image too, but my tracks were very long and could not have been geosynchronous.

Oddly enough, when I am doing alignments, I often see a satellite traipsing across the FOV. (Mostly because I'm using my eyepiece.)
Space junk. Just another way we pollute everything. :hunf: