Anyone know what this blip in the ISS orbit is?

I just cant see how it could be the chip, I really think the camera must have shifted and then resumed its position.

can you do another exposure of just the stars or something. if it doesnt show up again we can be sure its not the camera, and most likely the camera getting a tiny tiny shake from someone walking in close proxomity to the tripod, or touching it or a slight breese or something.

Does the ISS ever do a crazy shift of the solar panels or the like? (not that I'm saying thats what it is, it's just the thought had crossed my mind could some maneuver like that ever be recorded on film?)

It does, with the help (usually) of an external craft attached (Shuttle, or Progress etc), but the maneouvre would take a while to do. Considering the actual time of your blip against the time of travel across your field of view, it's probably within the 1 second mark - too fast for a large craft to do such a move!

Going back to the bug theory, if you have ever had the unfortunate, yet funny, experience of watching insects collide with your instruments, then that is what could have caused your blip. I jolt by a moth heavy enough to move camera lens? You bet! Those little buggers make quite a noise when they slam into a white telescope tube, or metal-light relecftion from a tubular tripod leg in total darkness!

Seanie.

Nobody mentioned the obvious...a back hole betwen here and the ISS which caused a microlensing effect on the reflected light from the ISS's solar panels!!

Maybe there is a very nearby black hole and it passed just above it (from our point of view) and the light was refracted around its event horizon, :lol:

You must have missed this one Michael :lol:

Nobody mentioned the obvious...a back hole betwen here and the ISS which caused a microlensing effect on the reflected light from the ISS's solar panels!!

I'm still sticking with the Rods theory!


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