<astro ? Sharing some infrared video.

Ya, Astro is always recording things in the night sky. Nothing new, totally normal behavior.

Normal behavior for what?
I have no idea what this video is showing. I clicked through to youtube, and there is no explanation there either.

I do not know either...

Did you record this?

Yes. The change in direction is interesting.

I don't see a change in direction. It looks like a satellite pass to me. I see it taking what appears to be an arcing trajectory across the sky as one would expect for a satellite... The video appears to be quite old judging by the time stamp on the video, so it's not going to be easy to positively ID the objects so long after the fact, but without more information about where you were when you recorded it (and the time zone of the time stamp in the video), it's definitely not possible to positively ID them.

Last Edited by Astromut on 07/12/2018 03:29 PM

Thanks. My location is 6 miles north from Oslo, Norway.

What was the time zone of the date/time stamp?

Norwegian time +1

GMT +3 then?

Not sure. One hour difference from London. I think it is GMT +1.

Well I can't get any of the images to solve by automated astrometry, there's just not enough reference stars there. I might be able to hack together a solution later by making a mosaic out of the frames as the camera pans around but that'll take a lot more time and may still not yield satisfactory results.

I will post more video tomorrow. Maybe that can help.
Thank you.

This is the
angle from the first shot.
Two crossing satellites.

Pretty boring if you....

Never saw a satellite move that fast.
Not even half as fast

Guess you haven't watched many satellites then.

Ok. Youtube
refuse me to upload
the other video. Sorry, I will try again tomorrow.

Its pretty normal.
've seen someone traveling a lot faster.

A lot of iridium sats pass near the poles, Norway is up that way.

Been launching a lot of them lately, moving old/new in and out orbits.

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This is from 2014....

Nice shoot of bugs in space.

Most of it is clumsy, but take a look...

I will upload more interesting clips tomorrow.

This is the same angel as the last one.