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Geosynchronous sattelite trails and the asteroid Pallas
Image Scale: 7 arcsec/pixel, FOV 90' x 60'
Exposure: Lum 395 x 10" Bin 2x2
Telescope: Takahashi FSQ-106 @ f/5 (fl=530mm)
Camera: SBIG ST-8 XME NABG, self-guiding
Mount: Paramount ME on ATS Portable Pier
Location: Ningaloo Skies Observatory, Exmouth, Western Australia on 8 Sep 2007
Processing: Images dark subtracted and scanned for satellite trails. Each group of trails were average combined in Images Plus 2.82. There were combined together using the maximum option to produce the final image.
Notes: Still pondering a way to maintain the brightnss of the satellite trails in the individual frames which is lost when combining many frames.
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