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Orionid meteor shower/satellites?
Anyone get up last night to see the meteor shower? I woke up at 5 am and went out on the deck and saw a few over an hour with my son. A couple of good ones. It was worth seeing.
I did watch something "fall" from Orion's belt...it took about 30 seconds from the belt till I lost it behind the house. It flared up a little and then I could still see it. Later I saw a light move left from Orion's leg across the sky where I had a opn view. I watched it lope along the sky for about a minute. At the same time, I saw one rise up from the bottom of the constellation but I lost track of it. I'm wondering what these things were. I have never seen slow shooting stars. I dont the they were planes. They didn't flash and sort of came out of nowhere. Could they have been satellites? Can you see satellites without anything to illuminate them?
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10-21-2012, 05:42 AM
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5 am the sun was not far from the horizon
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10-21-2012, 06:51 AM
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Yep, it's not that unusual to see satellites. They generally look like a plane at very high altitude, just a spec of light, but the move way too fast to be a plane.
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10-21-2012, 07:21 AM
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I was playing with the camera a bit with some long exposures, hoping to catch a meteor. No dice, but I did catch a satellite. One I didn't see last night. I have two back to back photos with a line tracking through it. Hell, that's pretty cool in my book...seeing something a zillion miles away in space like that. I need to get a remote for this camera...I'll post it later.
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10-21-2012, 02:13 PM
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Most satellites are really not too far up. Around 200 miles on average, I believe.
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10-21-2012, 02:23 PM
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Here's a couple of back to back photos where you can see the satellite around the 7:00 position. I didn't see this one at all when I was taking the photo, it's not terribly bright here either.  
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10-21-2012, 03:52 PM
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Nice pics. Sorry you thought I was hatin'.
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