30 Satellites Bin One 10x14 Degree Field Of View
Taken by Marco Langbroek on June 18, 2012 @
Leiden, the Netherlands
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 60D
Exposure Time: 10/1
Aperture: f/inf
ISO: 800
Date Taken: 2012:06:23 22:16:12
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This single image of a 10x14 degrees wide part of the geostationary belt was taken near midnight of June 18-19 and shows 30 satellites. Each black box contains one or more (mostly) geostationary satellites plus a few spent r/b: 23 commercial geostationary satellites, one classified military geostationary satellite (Milstar 5), and 6 spent rocket boosters. Each box is shown in detail in the lower part of the image.
Image taken from Leiden, the Netherlands in the night of June 18-19, 2012 using a Canon EOS 60D on a fixed tripod, with a SamYang 1.4/85mm lens and ISO at 800, 10 seconds exposure.
The geostationary belt can be seen as a slanting line of objects diagonally over the larger image.
The geostationary belt (at declination -7.4 degrees for the Netherlands) never comes high in the sky for my country (which is at 52 N). All the objects on the picture have an elevation below 30 degrees. The image was taken from a town center (center of Leiden), i.e. not an ideal dark sky (far from that!).
I did a slightly bad job in focussing, so the image is slightly less sharp (especially near the edges) than it could have been with this fine lens. Still, an amazing number of objects recorded in this small FOV!
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