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16 years 5 months ago #68824 by CaptainPlanet
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I was messing around with a new fast 50 mm lens tonight when I noticed a moving trail right beside Saturn. I managed to grab a 15 second exposure at f2.

Am I right or wrong in thinking that this could have been the ISS?

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16 years 5 months ago #68825 by pj30something
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I'm not seeing anything there.

Ohhhhhhhhh ok i see it now.

Looks too faint to me to be the ISS..................but what do i know.
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16 years 5 months ago #68829 by dave_lillis
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It certainly looks too faint, unless you have heavens-above telling you it is, then I suspect its not the ISS.
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16 years 5 months ago #68833 by CaptainPlanet
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I'm still puzzled as to what it could have been then. I thought it might have been the Shuttle as I got mixed up with the launch days, it's supposed to be launching today.
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16 years 5 months ago #68834 by michaeloconnell
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Too faint to be either the ISS or Shuttle.
There are literally thousands of satellites and pieces of satellites in orbit around earth.

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16 years 5 months ago #68835 by dave_lillis
Replied by dave_lillis on topic Re: Trail in Leo
exactly, it's one of the those many thousands of man made objects, not everything that crosses the sky is the ISS.
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