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Satellite photo for navigation
From: Peter Monta
Date: 2013 Aug 22, 22:50 -0700
From: Peter Monta
Date: 2013 Aug 22, 22:50 -0700
I was lucky enough just now to get the attached photo of the International Space Station passing by Polaris. (Handheld camera!) For scale, the star trails are 5 arcminutes long. Question: where am I? Cheers, Peter ps: including extinction, the dim star is visual magnitude 5.85, and yet even in its smeared state it's detectable.