adventure_photo wrote:
I also enjoy photographing the MW in fall when you can get some nice images with it balanced with the dusky sky. I agree about too many satellites, however in this case those are meteors from the Taurid Meteor shower. That frame is from a time lapse I had set up and the meteor shower was very intense.
In all your images the streaks are predominantly Starlink satellites. There may be a meteor or two in there, but especially the dusk image shows the nature of the twilight transits, and how they look from the mid-latitudes. As it turns to night the geometry remains, but the 'lit' satellites start to move toward the horizon, and aren't as visible up high.
Everyone's images of the comet showed these exact results, since the comet was mostly 'above' the sun, where the satellites are being most-effectively lit at/after twilight.
Jeff wrote:
In all your images the streaks are predominantly Starlink satellites. There may be a meteor or two in there, but especially the dusk image shows the nature of the twilight transits, and how they look from the mid-latitudes. As it turns to night the geometry remains, but the 'lit' satellites start to move toward the horizon, and aren't as visible up high.
Everyone's images of the comet showed these exact results, since the comet was mostly 'above' the sun, where the satellites are being most-effectively lit at/after twilight.
adventure_photo wrote:
I also enjoy photographing the MW in fall when you can get some nice images with it balanced with the dusky sky. I agree about too many satellites, however in this case those are meteors from the Taurid Meteor shower. That frame is from a time lapse I had set up and the meteor shower was very intense.
Jeff wrote:
In all your images the streaks are predominantly Starlink satellites. There may be a meteor or two in there, but especially the dusk image shows the nature of the twilight transits, and how they look from the mid-latitudes. As it turns to night the geometry remains, but the 'lit' satellites start to move toward the horizon, and aren't as visible up high.
Everyone's images of the comet showed these exact results, since the comet was mostly 'above' the sun, where the satellites are being most-effectively lit at/after twilight.
