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Geosynchronous Satellite Animation

Object name / Catalog Number:  Five Geosynchronous Satellite Flying By Orion

Camera (specific model):  DSI Pro II

Number of Exposures & Exposure length:
Blue: 36 x 10 seconds, animation

Scope: Model, Aperture and F ratio:
Celestron C80ED, 80mm, f/3.8

Filters used: Meade Blue (part of LRGB series; the Blue timeframe had the most satellite action)

Additional Information

Guide camera/scope: Meade DSI II-C, Meade 8 inch LX90, f/6.3

Image Capture Software: Meade Envisage

Processing software: Adobe PhotoShop CS2 (levels and curves, animation of 36 frames)

Other: Frames registration was left slaved to the guider and not re-registered in the animation, to illustrate the temporary guiding error induced by one of the satellites getting too close to a guide star.

Location:  San Diego, CA

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Photo Comments

rcole_sooner wrote:
At first I thought "Nice focus, but a little grainy.", then I figured-out it was an animation and now I think "This is really Cool!".

8:24 AM on January 29, 2008

ChuckR54 wrote:
Qualified - 5 points

1) Focus/Sharpness - Focus was good
2) Composition - Fine (how did you get those satellites to cooperate???)
3) Star Quality - Had a couple of PE excursions, otherwise good
4) Processing Skills - Good
5) Exposure/Depth - Under-exposed/overstretched to reveal the satellite tracks
6) Technical Bonus - Yes - animation (You get an "E" for effort!). Some things to work on next time would be to align all the subframes & save them to a registered AVI file (K3CCDTools can do this) and maybe try to match the stretch from frame to frame a little more closely...although this wan't bad compared to many I have seen.

7:35 PM on January 29, 2008

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