Humanity Star
From heavens-above for my location - Humanity Star ( HS) Mag +5.1 passing close to easily recognisable Canopus on March 06 2018 ~20:24 before entering earth's shadow. Canopus is visible through my sitting room window.
But there are clouds
Using Sonotaco UFOcaptureHd software, I hit the button around 20:24:13 and let it records 3 minutes. The resulting peakhold images revealed clearly detected flashing 'dots' per the heavens-above plot.
I tried replay the avi file and managed to detect a flash at 20:24:41. Then after a few attempts managed 2+1 additional flashes. I also tried stacking the avi using Registax which had no benefit for very short tiny flashes. THe canon setup didnt see anything as i started the remote release too late.
But there are clouds
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| Clouds were there and luckily sky cleared and the mag 6 + stars visible |
Using Sonotaco UFOcaptureHd software, I hit the
I tried replay the avi file and managed to detect a flash at 20:24:41. Then after a few attempts managed 2+1 additional flashes. I also tried stacking the avi using Registax which had no benefit for very short tiny flashes. THe canon setup didnt see anything as i started the remote release too late.
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| Canon G5x and Watec 902h2/ Avenir 25mm f0.95 |
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| Humanity Star Path |
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| Screen showing the series of blue dots marking HS flashes |
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| Sonotaco UFOcaptureHd software - Stars trailed except for the brief satellite flashes |
G5X gave pretty good stellar magnitude too after histogram stretching
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Graateful for sharing this
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