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Karls48
07-04-2008, 06:01 PM
Couple nights while imagining I noticed what looked like satellite trail across the image. Well, nothing unusual. But then the other trail appeared and then the other. At one stage I had 6 trails visible on the image travelling in same direction. I switched camera to single shot mode and took few images. I could not see anything with naked eye. My guess is that it was rocket or satellite debris but I’m not sure. Any one got better idea what it could be? The star in middle of image is Procyon.
Date and time of observation 05/04/08 T21:23 EST, PA 277d :10m

koputai
07-04-2008, 06:39 PM
Geostationary satellites? They'd be in approximately the right area.

Cheers,
Jason.

bojan
07-04-2008, 07:35 PM
Geostationary satellites should appear to "move" from west to east on photos (if telescope tracking was on).
This definitely seems to be the case on your photos...
Very interesting work ! :-)

Karls48
07-04-2008, 09:05 PM
Yes you are right. Thanks Jason and Bojan. I should think of it myself and switch tracking off.