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What is this thing ?
Hey Adam,
In the 1.5 years or so that I have been doing astrophotography I have never seen this. These are 60 seconds shots from a Bortle 1/2 site. For 3 or 4 minutes (only 2 shown here) after the passage of a satellite this brownish structure appeared on the left hand side, fading from 1 image to the next. Have you ever seen something like it ? Do you know what this is ? It seems to me that it would be a very strange coincidence if it was not caused by the satellite.
Note: I always pretty much shot nebulae with dual NB filters. This is my first ever galaxy and pretty much first experience with just a UV/IR Cut filter so maybe it's not as rare or unusual as I think.
In the 1.5 years or so that I have been doing astrophotography I have never seen this. These are 60 seconds shots from a Bortle 1/2 site. For 3 or 4 minutes (only 2 shown here) after the passage of a satellite this brownish structure appeared on the left hand side, fading from 1 image to the next. Have you ever seen something like it ? Do you know what this is ? It seems to me that it would be a very strange coincidence if it was not caused by the satellite.
Note: I always pretty much shot nebulae with dual NB filters. This is my first ever galaxy and pretty much first experience with just a UV/IR Cut filter so maybe it's not as rare or unusual as I think.
In any case, I'm looking forward to reading your thoughts on this.
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Tomorrow I will stack and stretch those 4-5 shots to get a better view.
TBH I much prefer the meteor afterglow option than the “water” dump
Since you helped me understand what this was, I thought maybe you'd like to see this animated GIF I made from the subs.