Posted: Apr 24, 2017 1:19 pm
Last night was clear and I hobbled out to try to catch a meteor. While I did manage to grab one tiny meteor I saw one that was awesome. While not particularly bright the meteor covered half the sky, and was insanely fast. It entered the atmosphere from the almost due east and on a very flat trajectory, which may be why it lasted so long.
I used my barn door tracker for the first time, and while it worked well it still needs some adjustments. I am either driving the actuator at the wrong speed, and or my alignment to Polaris is off. Still, the attached image is a 5 minute exposure, and is another documentation of the paired satellites I posted upthread. The cheap rifle scope I used as a Polaris alignment tool has suffered from moisture penetration and was completely clouded so I eyeballed this critical part along the hinge edge, and I am sure most of the issues lie there.
I like how these passed through the cup of the Big Dipper.
Posible origin of these paired satellites.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 6513000805
RS
I used my barn door tracker for the first time, and while it worked well it still needs some adjustments. I am either driving the actuator at the wrong speed, and or my alignment to Polaris is off. Still, the attached image is a 5 minute exposure, and is another documentation of the paired satellites I posted upthread. The cheap rifle scope I used as a Polaris alignment tool has suffered from moisture penetration and was completely clouded so I eyeballed this critical part along the hinge edge, and I am sure most of the issues lie there.
I like how these passed through the cup of the Big Dipper.
- Paired Satellites
- IMG_4835.JPG (962.01 KiB) Viewed 2585 times
Posible origin of these paired satellites.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/ar ... 6513000805
RS