Lunar Reconescence Orbiter
Taken by Achilleas Dimou on August 23, 2015 @
North Evia island, Greece
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A large satellite orbiting the moon, i reckon it's the LRO.
It was only visible in longer exposure images as the light it reflected in short exposures was minimal.
It seemed to have an eliptical orbit and was observed the next day (imaged again too) in a far greater distance from the moon.
I am checking the moon every day since but have not found it around.
The animation is preliminary since i am still at a remote location.
some frames in the middle need to be omitted but i left them in for now for frame to frame analysis.
this animation includes all frames captured (around 395 frames)
The visible movement lasts around 1 hour, from 9pm to 10pm GMT+2
Irony is that i own a 14" LX200 telescope back home and all i had here with me was a DSLR and a 300mm lens.
6000x4000 pixel wide images but no way to zoom in on the object and make it larger than 4 pixel wide.
Image has been cropped to 2000x2000 and aligned many times with PiPP increasing the threshold on each run to make it stable
but clouds confuse it and i can't process it at this location.
Another "object" (UFO for my limited knowledge) is located at the bottom right far out of the moon in a fixed orbit.
It is not a star since it perfectly follows the moon for an hour. (visible in animation)
It would be great if you could identify these satellites !
Animation : (low res for easy sharing, RAW quality of these crops is 4Gb, lossless compression is 850mb, 300 more than easybytez allows to upload)
http://www.easybytez.com/mzb3g9j4q5as
Thank you for your time!
Achilleas Dimou
Amateur Astronomer
Photographer's website:
http://www.astrobin.com/users/Cre3p/
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