Post #3545575
2026-07-02 13:06 UTC
One of my images got photobombed. My first thought was a group of Starlinks, but Stellarium said no satellites passed through my field of view around that time. So then I checked Flightradar24 and was able to confirm that the culprit was in fact a Boeing 777, specifically Qatar Cargo's A7-BFQ operating flight QTR8406 from Sydney to Hong Kong. I think the red smears near the middle of the image might be the engine nacelles, briefly illuminated by a flash of the under fuselage beacon.
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@spacelizard@aus.social 2026-07-02 15:02
I'm still considering this a work in progress for now, but it's looking promising! It's a mosaic of the area around the Eta Carina nebula put together from three pointings from tonight, plus a deeper stack of Eta Carina that I already had. I had to crop the combined image just a little more than I'd like due to some gaps, so I'll take some more data at the start of tomorrow night to fill those in. #Astrophotography #Seestar #Seestar30Pro #ThirtyMilliMetreTelescope #TMMT