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Satellite crossing the Sun?
Looks like I might have caught a satellite crossing between Earth and the Sun while I was imaging the sunspot group AR1476 yesterday.
In this short segment of video, frames 6 through 17 show a tiny object moving in a straight line across the face of the Sun, entering the frame from lower left of the big sunspot group, passing just left of the main sunspot, and exiting the top of the frame almost directly above the large sunspot.
It is quite small and moving rapidly. I enlarged the video 2X to try to determine detail and it appears to be a bar shape with a slight cross to it. It is NOT the Chinese Tiangong-1 satellite OR the ISS. I'll have to check the satellite tracking sites to see what was over us at this time of day.
video0003 12-05-13 13-44-22 satellite x2.00
Satellite crossing the Sun?
Looks like I might have caught a satellite crossing between Earth and the Sun while I was imaging the sunspot group AR1476 yesterday.
In this short segment of video, frames 6 through 17 show a tiny object moving in a straight line across the face of the Sun, entering the frame from lower left of the big sunspot group, passing just left of the main sunspot, and exiting the top of the frame almost directly above the large sunspot.
It is quite small and moving rapidly. I enlarged the video 2X to try to determine detail and it appears to be a bar shape with a slight cross to it. It is NOT the Chinese Tiangong-1 satellite OR the ISS. I'll have to check the satellite tracking sites to see what was over us at this time of day.
video0003 12-05-13 13-44-22 satellite x2.00