The passage of the SpaceX G2-9 Starlink group at about 3:30 am on May 15, 2023, with the satellite chain still bright five days after its May 10 launc
The passage of the SpaceX G2-9 Starlink group at about 3:30 am on May 15, 2023, with the satellite chain still bright five days after its May 10 launch from Vandenburgh Air Force Base in California. This is most of the group, though a bright leader satellite did pass by a minute prior following the same path. The satellites were predicted to be magntiude but appear as bright as first magnitude stars. This is looking northwest toward the Big Dipper at top. The glow of morning twilight brightening the sky. The satellite train is traveling from left to right here, from southwest to north. This is a noisy image, even after passing it through Adobe AI Denoise and Noise XTerminator, as it was shot at ISO 25,600 on the Canon R5, the high ISO necessary to keep the exposure down to 1 second even at with the 21mm TTArtisan lens used. The lens wide open also exhibits a lot of aberrations, but its speed was key to getting the shot! Any longer exppsure and the satellites would have streaked together into one solid line, looking like any single satellite trail image. As it is they are nicely separated here but still streaked into short lines. Shot from home in southern Alberta. Indeed, that’s my house!
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