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Old 21-08-2013, 11:39 PM
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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
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Old 22-08-2013, 06:41 AM
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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.

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Old 22-08-2013, 07:25 AM
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Great work, Peter!
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Old 22-08-2013, 08:51 AM
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Follow the dotted line. Noice.
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Old 22-08-2013, 09:32 AM
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Great work, Peter!
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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.

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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!
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Old 22-08-2013, 11:14 AM
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Well done Peter. Nice resolution. The object is resolved enough to see it is elongated. Is it Hubble?
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Old 22-08-2013, 03:39 PM
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Well done Peter. Nice resolution. The object is resolved enough to see it is elongated. Is it Hubble?
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.
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Old 22-08-2013, 03:49 PM
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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.
Der of course. Was looking down the bottom of the page.
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Forget the satellite, the processing is superb on this moon!
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Old 23-08-2013, 10:29 AM
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Thanks John... wait 'till you see what I did with the other moon !
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Old 23-08-2013, 10:42 AM
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Nice work Peter, lovely image.
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Old 23-08-2013, 06:40 PM
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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!
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PS. change your title - I like it - but others may miss the connection and miss your great work!
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Old 23-08-2013, 07:54 PM
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PS. change your title - I like it - but others may miss the connection and miss your great work!
Humm... OK.... how about: "Yueliang" I guess 1.3 billion people should get it
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Took me a while to find it - impressive nonetheless. I do like your image of the moon full stop!

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Nicely captured Peter!

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