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Old 28-10-2023, 04:43 PM
Dennis
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I did not feel super confident that I had recorded the faint outer satellite Leda on the images I took on my second run, posted above, so I went back to Run 01 and processed the 27 x 60 sec frames using PixInsight.

Pleasingly, the results were much more conclusive, and I now feel more confident that I managed to record the faint trail of Leda, a magnitude 20.068 satellite of Jupiter.

I obtained the positional data from the JPL Horizons website and plotted the calculated positions for the start/end times of the 27 frames I captured, and the fit was excellent.

Run 01
Start/End UT
2023-Oct-20 14:38 RA: 02 38 05.78 DEC: +13 51 53.4
2023-Oct-20 15:05 RA: 02 38 05.32 DEC: +13 51 50.5
27 frames at 60 secs
Brisbane QLD.

21st October 2023 12:38am to 01:05am AEST (UT+10)

I plotted the JPL data and when I overlay the results in The Sky X Pro, there is a very good fit to the recorded trail.

I also identified some fainter field stars using the GAIA DATA RELEASE 2 (GAIA DR2) Catalogue and annotated the attached image. This has given me more confidence that I now have a good candidate for Leda.

Dennis
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