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Sep 30, 2019 sunset / moonset timelapse plus star trails

Sep 29-30, 2019 time lapse plus star trails

There were several odd lights in formation, upper center and right quadrant for the last half of the video. My guess is geostationary Starlink satellites. I’ve not seen this before in many years of time lapsing the night sky.

Sep 29, 2019

This was a 5 second interval, but for the magnification and cloud speed I think 4 seconds would be smoother. Tomorrow night I’ll try that and see how I like it.

Sep 28-29, 2019

Zodiacal light is prominent in the east before dawn now, which was my reason for pointing that way. Unfortunately it is a little obscured by the clouds.

Sep 28, 2019

I spotted this near sunset and ran to grab my telephoto lens

A quick twitter search for “high altitude balloon launch” found the mission and a link to the live feed from the balloon, which I’m still watching several hours later:

NASA launched a stargazing telescope called PICTURE-C on a scientific balloon from Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The mission is now airborne and collecting science.

Live GPS tracking: https://t.co/p5qHY53tqC
Live views of PICTURE-C at work: https://t.co/7Dzevh6iey pic.twitter.com/IE16YDxb8u
— NASA Wallops (@NASA_Wallops) September 28, 2019