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Old 06-11-2011, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Tommy Camp View Post
Gyosynchro Sats wouldn't be hugely interesting to see would they? considering they'd seem much like a star, except staying at the same point in space throughout the entire night.
Not screamingly interesting to look at.

They do, however, make an interesting image. I have used a 50mm lens pointed up at the celestrial equator and opened for about 15 minutes. The stars all trailed across the image but the geostat's sat to produce a point image. There were 4 or 5 almost equally spaced across the image in a line. If I can find and scan the image I'll post it. It was a long time ago.
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