Comments on: Unexpected Objects http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2010/03/06/unexpected-objects/ Amateur astrophotography with a Canon 1000D Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:07:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: admin http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2010/03/06/unexpected-objects/comment-page-1/#comment-114 admin Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:19:33 +0000 http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/?p=254#comment-114 Checking the time stamp on my image the camera reports that it took this frame at 22:56 on the 6th of March, the camera time appears to be fast by around 4 minutes. Do you reset your camera clock over winter to adjust for GMT? I've not thought to change mine so the hour difference could be accounted for there as mine remains permanently set to UTC for no other reason than I forget to change it. I'm just down in Basingstoke so not Checking the time stamp on my image the camera reports that it took this frame at 22:56 on the 6th of March, the camera time appears to be fast by around 4 minutes. Do you reset your camera clock over winter to adjust for GMT? I’ve not thought to change mine so the hour difference could be accounted for there as mine remains permanently set to UTC for no other reason than I forget to change it.

I’m just down in Basingstoke so not

]]> By: Peter Tickner http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2010/03/06/unexpected-objects/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Peter Tickner Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:49:51 +0000 http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/?p=254#comment-112 Tim Can you please confirm your timing. Reading AS is getting somewhat obsessed with our two images! I can time my camera as taking my streak at 11:50 that night, but the camera was 3 minutes slow. The laptop was running on the right time for the download but a difference of 30 minutes between us for those streaks is beyond the likely range - but they are so identical there has to be a relationship. Same angle and fractionally different in start and end point, as well as displacement (mine is to the West, not East per my first comment). I'd be grateful if you could email me about this and I'll send you my image in return. Peter Tim

Can you please confirm your timing. Reading AS is getting somewhat obsessed with our two images! I can time my camera as taking my streak at 11:50 that night, but the camera was 3 minutes slow. The laptop was running on the right time for the download but a difference of 30 minutes between us for those streaks is beyond the likely range – but they are so identical there has to be a relationship. Same angle and fractionally different in start and end point, as well as displacement (mine is to the West, not East per my first comment).

I’d be grateful if you could email me about this and I’ll send you my image in return.

Peter

]]> By: Peter Tickner http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2010/03/06/unexpected-objects/comment-page-1/#comment-107 Peter Tickner Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:39:17 +0000 http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/?p=254#comment-107 My pleasure. We both seem to have caught Cosmos 2433. Looking at my image and superimposing yours on it there is a clear difference from our respective locations, albeit we must have been within 20 miles of each other. Mine was taken in Lower Earley but the streak appears to start a fraction further on from M65 than yours and is further to the South and East in the same field of view. Peter My pleasure. We both seem to have caught Cosmos 2433. Looking at my image and superimposing yours on it there is a clear difference from our respective locations, albeit we must have been within 20 miles of each other. Mine was taken in Lower Earley but the streak appears to start a fraction further on from M65 than yours and is further to the South and East in the same field of view.

Peter

]]> By: admin http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2010/03/06/unexpected-objects/comment-page-1/#comment-101 admin Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:44:51 +0000 http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/?p=254#comment-101 Thanks Peter, I mentioned it to the members of the Basingstoke society who were online at the time but we didn't have much luck tracking down the source. Nice to know what it was! Thanks Peter, I mentioned it to the members of the Basingstoke society who were online at the time but we didn’t have much luck tracking down the source. Nice to know what it was!

]]> By: Peter Tickner http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/2010/03/06/unexpected-objects/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Peter Tickner Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:35:44 +0000 http://www.veryamateur.co.uk/?p=254#comment-100 I took an image of the Triplet that night as well using a Canon 7D and a small 70mm ED piggybacked on my larger scope and got the same streak. The consensus of my local Astronomy club (Reading) is that it is a spinning Cosmos satellite that was predicted in the region at around 11:35pm Peter I took an image of the Triplet that night as well using a Canon 7D and a small 70mm ED piggybacked on my larger scope and got the same streak. The consensus of my local Astronomy club (Reading) is that it is a spinning Cosmos satellite that was predicted in the region at around 11:35pm

Peter

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