Exquisite Eta Aquarid and Milky Way
Taken by Chris Brown on May 6, 2009 @ Santa Fe, N.M.
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  Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Exposure Time: 35/1
Aperture: f/inf
ISO: 2500
Date Taken: 2019:05:05 16:58:56
  
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A near bolide in morning twilight May 6. This is a good shower to image meteors and the southern Milky Way. I tracked this 35s image with the light-duty iOptron SkyTracker, and imaged it w/ full frame Canon Mark II 5d, manual focus 14mm Rokinon lens, at ISO 2500, f2.8. For context, I've included the original image, lightly cropped to eliminate the vignetted corners. And a Portrait image I like but mau not display proportionalely on this site.
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Its a satellite :)
Posted by rmerzlyakov 2019-05-07 02:24:47
Not a satellite nor an Aquarid. A sporadic or late Lyrid. The path tracks back EXACTLY to the late April Lyrid radiant. A tumbling, intermittent satellite would have to be brighter than ISS. to produce this image. There is no such trail -- that a satellite would leave - on a previous or subsequent frame of these 35s images with an 8s interval. An interactive satellite passage data base shows no satellite this bright in the a.m. of 5/6. Titan passed several degrees east a half hour after this image. What does a trail of Titan look like?
Posted by bccomet 2019-05-07 20:45:27
 
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