China Moon

[Peter Ward]

CalSky....a fabulous web site BTW....indicated I had a few Sun/Moon crossing
satellite events coming my way, but looking at the numbers the transit times
were incredibly short, and angular sizes equally so...hence I figured getting any result at all, was going to be a tough technical exercise.

Begging the question can a 12" AP Honders resolve something about the size of a bus, moving at 8km/sec, some 700km away?

While the result looks like teeny fly-specs across the moon...the answer is yes! :)

The link is here (http://www.atscope.com.au/BRO/gallery267.html)

[Dennis]

Excellent work Peter, now I know what 3.2 arc secs looks like against the disk of the Moon as I receive similar bulletins but was never game enough to set up for anything less than the ISS.

Cheers

Dennis

[Larryp]

Great work, Peter!

[multiweb]

Follow the dotted line. Noice. :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[Peter Ward]

Thanks Marc

Appreciate the feedback Laurie




Yep...pretty tiny.... I thought I missed it as I didn't see a thing during recording, but stepping through the .avi frame by frame got a pleasant surprise! :)

[Paul Haese]

Well done Peter. Nice resolution. The object is resolved enough to see it is elongated. Is it Hubble?

[Peter Ward]

Ta Paul... it's the Chinese space station Tiangong-1. ( noted the top of the webpage ;) )

I think it is easily resolvable with a zenith pass (360km....Thierry Legalt has done excellent work at that distance) but I was pushing the envelope at double that.

[Paul Haese]

Der of course. Was looking down the bottom of the page.

[dvj]

Forget the satellite, the processing is superb on this moon!

[Peter Ward]

Thanks John... wait 'till you see what I did with the other moon ! :D

[iceman]

Nice work Peter, lovely image.

[Matt Wastell]

On ya Peter - Calsky is great. I love the image(s) - tiny but rewarding.
The ISS is quite easy (right location of course) - Hubble is tough! Tiangong-1 is also tough!
I am so surprised how much stuff transits the Sun and Moon - keep at em!

[Matt Wastell]

PS. change your title - I like it - but others may miss the connection and miss your great work!

[Peter Ward]

Humm... OK.... how about: "Yueliang" I guess 1.3 billion people should get it :)

[DavidTrap]

Took me a while to find it - impressive nonetheless. I do like your image of the moon full stop!

DT

[StephenM]

Nicely captured Peter!

Cheers,
Stephen