Animation of glints from geosync sats
Taken by Matt Penn on March 6, 2021 @
Tucson, AZ, USA
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You published a short sequence back on 4/15/2011 of some geosync sat glints; nice tracking, probably expensive setup.
Now anyone with an all-sky cam can see these glints! And this is the season... around the equinoxes. Some are as bright as 2nd magnitude.
This setup is a Raspberry Pi High Quality Cam, 1.5mm fl lens, a Pi Zero W, tripod and USB battery = $160US. Setup on my roof, with some background subtraction to remove the city lights.
A network of a handful of these around the globe, observing near the equinoxes, could catalog and monitor all the geosyncs.
Photographer's website:
https://not yet
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