SpaceX Falcon9 Second Stage with crossing satellite
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SpaceX Falcon9 Second Stage with crossing satellite
this is photo of SpaceX Falcon 9 second stage (brighter one ) with a second satellite crossing
Falcon9 2nd stage was moving Very fast - crossed sky in about 5 minutes - most low earth satellites take around 8/9 minutes -
will likely be de orbited pretty soon - photo was taken early december -
I use a canon 70d with 18x55 kit lens - wide open -
Change ISO as sky Darkens - usually between 1200 and 6400 -
also change exposure Time to between 10 to 20 seconds
the trick is to get as Long exposure time with out blowing out stars and sky -
Object is to get long streak with nice stars in background -
Lots of times I just pick darkest park of sky and shoot 10 to 15 shots of dark area -
I usually shoot wide shots and if I see a sat on view screen I zoom in on it -
tonight there is a Chinese spy sat and Falcon9 second stage going to cross over a2 minutes apart -
Im going to mostly try to get falcon 9 -
sky here has broken clouds tonight and this can add some nice piazza to photo - Jay
Falcon9 2nd stage was moving Very fast - crossed sky in about 5 minutes - most low earth satellites take around 8/9 minutes -
will likely be de orbited pretty soon - photo was taken early december -
I use a canon 70d with 18x55 kit lens - wide open -
Change ISO as sky Darkens - usually between 1200 and 6400 -
also change exposure Time to between 10 to 20 seconds
the trick is to get as Long exposure time with out blowing out stars and sky -
Object is to get long streak with nice stars in background -
Lots of times I just pick darkest park of sky and shoot 10 to 15 shots of dark area -
I usually shoot wide shots and if I see a sat on view screen I zoom in on it -
tonight there is a Chinese spy sat and Falcon9 second stage going to cross over a2 minutes apart -
Im going to mostly try to get falcon 9 -
sky here has broken clouds tonight and this can add some nice piazza to photo - Jay
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Re: SpaceX Falcon9 Second Stage with crossing satellite
nice shot , thx .
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Re: SpaceX Falcon9 Second Stage with crossing satellite
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Re: SpaceX Falcon9 Second Stage with crossing satellite
Glad you all enjoyed -
clouds thickened up but at the last second clouds opened up some and was able to get Falcon9 with another satellite in close to crossing paths -
I think 2nd satellite is Maybe Japanese H2R - I was trying to get both in same photo but they were 75 seconds apart where crossing -
most likely its some other sat
4 sats were pretty dim and I could not see them by eye -
in a few minutes I got 5 sats - and were all in crossing patterns - but really dim just a whisper in photos -
did see one sat by eye but really faint -what ever it was it was going fast - Really fast -
it was not listed on heaven above so dont know what it was - west to east orbit
clouds thickened up but at the last second clouds opened up some and was able to get Falcon9 with another satellite in close to crossing paths -
I think 2nd satellite is Maybe Japanese H2R - I was trying to get both in same photo but they were 75 seconds apart where crossing -
most likely its some other sat
4 sats were pretty dim and I could not see them by eye -
in a few minutes I got 5 sats - and were all in crossing patterns - but really dim just a whisper in photos -
did see one sat by eye but really faint -what ever it was it was going fast - Really fast -
it was not listed on heaven above so dont know what it was - west to east orbit
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