Thanks to everyone for your nice words of appreciation, they are much valued. Now that our new computer has been commissioned and familiar software re-loaded, I began the hunt for these mysterious trails, assuming them to be satellites due to their parallel tracks and multiple paths recorded on the sub-frames.
Starry Night Pro Plus 6 suggested the following candidate geosynchronous Satellites for the trails in the composite image.
CIEL-2 The Canadian communications satellite Ciel-2 launched on 11th December 2008 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Proton-M carrier rocket.
http://www.cielsatellite.ca/satellites.html
http://balita.ph/2008/12/11/canadian...-target-orbit/
NSS-9 Launched on February 12, 2009. NSS-9 at 183° East is a replacement satellite for NSS-5, featuring three C-band beams ideal for government users, broadcasters, carriers and the maritime industry.
http://www.newskies.com/nss9.htm
Echostar 1 An American geostationary communications spacecraft that was launched by a CZ-2E with EPKM upper stage rocket from Xichang Center in Sichuan province, PRC on 28th December 1995.
http://www.tbs-satellite.com/tse/onl...chostar_1.html
http://www.geo-orbit.org/westhemipgs/fecho1specp.html
Starry Night Pro Plus 6
Using Starry Night Pro Plus 6, I plotted the paths of the geosynchronous Satellites then overlaid the ST7 composite image which showed a remarkable correlation between the actual and predicted paths of these 3 geosynchronous satellites, although I had mysteriously missed a 4th, Express-MD1?
SkyTools 3 Pro
I then plotted the trail of 2009 FD using SkyTools 3 Pro and merging the composite ST7 image and the SkyTools screen capture revealed how remarkably accurate SkyTools 3 Pro was in plotting the predicted path of 2009 FD.
Finally, on a roll, I generated another animated gif which on the 1st pass, shows a label free animation of the satellite that more accurately depicts the dynamic nature of the event which then runs on into an animation including labels identifying the 3 satellites.
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2009 FD
Cheers
Dennis