A scene captured from the Portuguese village of Campinho in the Dark Sky Alqueva Reserve shows a partially eclipsed moon, Mars and the Milky Way with a flare from the Formosat-2
satellite crossing the center of the picture. The bright planet Jupiter is also visible on the right edge. Credit: Miguel Claro 1 posted on
09/23/2018 9:11:52 AM PDT by
ETL
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
09/23/2018 9:12:10 AM PDT by
ETL
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3 posted on
09/23/2018 9:17:09 AM PDT by
buckalfa
(I was so much older then, but I'am younger than that now.)
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Gorgeous astro photo. I thought "satellite flare" was the author's mistaken confusion of a lens flare. Turns out the glint of sun reflection from a satellite is called "satellite flare." So another day, another gem of knowledge from FR!
When our kids were little, we used to lie on our backs at night in the mountains counting satellites. The kids' visual acuity was great and they'd always spot them before me. We also had a fly-over of the ISS in FairPlay, CO last year. That was really spectacular.
Here's an animation of satellite flare from Wiki...
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6 posted on
09/23/2018 9:43:15 AM PDT by
dfwgator
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Very cool, but why is the reflection of the moon in the water angled to the left? It should be pointing at us. A little artistic photoshop license?
11 posted on
09/23/2018 10:01:50 AM PDT by
Right Wing Assault
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I’ve got a PVS-14 night vision monocular No magnification, but some evening I’ll lay in my lawn chair (we live in the country so not much light polution) and scan the sky. You see all sorts of satellites and meteorites you’d never see otherwise.
14 posted on
09/23/2018 10:17:10 AM PDT by
CrazyIvan
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