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Old 29-05-2022, 07:51 PM
Dennis
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Join Date: May 2005
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Thanks Marc, I appreciate your comments.

After a few months off due to family matters then poor weather, it was good to be under the night skies again, although much had been forgotten and I struggled with the set up.

In the end, all was good and importantly, I had a lot of fun.

In my 30 sec exposures (27th May) the asteroid trail was the hypotenuse of a triangle, with sides 30 pix and 50 pix, giving a trail length of approx. 58 pixels.

This works out at 1.93 pixels per second.

At an image scale of 0.364 arcsecs/pixel, the movement is then approx. 0.7 arcsec/pixel which ties in the value reported by The Sky X Pro.

Cheers

Dennis

EDIT:
Added an enlarged view of the 30 sec trail and some calculations to estimate the rate of movement.
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