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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!

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David Callejas, Marketing Director, helps bring EarthSky's content to the world via online ads and other products. He creates strategies that help people around the world find us and appreciate the work we do. He helps manage the EarthSky Store and bring to you the new products that you love. He's the chief liaison between EarthSky.org and the world of commerce. All that, plus he helps post content and populate our pages on Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. Go David!