Rosette traffic

[LewisM]

I made an animated gif (HOPEFULLY WORKS HERE!) of 24 x 30 sec luminance frames I took of the Rosette nebula. LOT of traffic going on (remember each frame is 30 secs), including 4 objects (left side) following each other.

Will do one recently too that showed an object moving SLOWLY (since the frames are 5 minutes each), so likely an asteroid/NEO

Fingers crossed the animated gif ANIMATES...

EDIT: at 200 px, it's not worth it - how to upload a decent sized animated gif/where? You can barely see the traffic (MANY objects)

[LewisM]

It'll be slow to load, but much bigger: http://members.iinet.net.au/~lewis77...%20traffic.gif

[deanm (Dean)]

Looks like the opening scenes of a Star Wars movie!

Dean

[PCH (Paul)]

That's very cool Lewis, thanks for sharing

[Ric]

Looks like a busy section of the galaxy.

[LewisM]

And that's just 12 minutes

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

From one who lives under the flight path to Maroochydore, Brisbane and Amberly (as well as living close to 2 busy private air fields) you have my complete sympathy.
We can be grateful to the median combine gods that they don't affect our images.

[LewisM]

Nettie,

That's not aviation traffic. That's just a bit higher up... like mesosphere/thermosphere. Satellites and likely meteoric origins.

I blink all my images when stacking (CCDStack does that), looking for dud images and anything interesting. I was delighted to see this much reflective traffic in a 12 minute run.

Reminds myself to still do the suspected asteroid I captured passing through NGC1365 environs recently too.