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Vytas Cuplinskas
Riverside, IL
03/19/2024
09:00 pm

Equipment Details:

Askar FRA400 f/5.6 refractor, ZWO ASI533MM camera, Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer GTi mount, William Optics 32mm f/3.75 UniGuide with ZWO ASI120MM-Mini guiding scope/camera, ZWO ASIair Mini, ZWO EAF

Post-processing Details:

Adobe Photoshop, NoiseXTerminator

Image Details:

I was trying to get a clean picture of the Comet 12P (Pons-Brooks) just after sunset last night before it dipped behind the horizon (it’s dead center in the photo with its tail going off to the left) - this is a 30 second exposure that 3 satellites decided to photo bomb (with the brightest one skewering the comet). Out of the sixty 30 sec exposures that I took last night of the comet – seventeen had satellite tracks visible in them (and some like this photo had multiple tracks). Space around the earth is becoming a congested superhighway!