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2026-07-02 10:30 UTC
Oh, neat. If you have your Seestar connected to your home WiFi in "Station Mode" you can just connect to its internal storage over the network using Samba. So, if sufficiently keen, you can make a start on processing the images while its still outside taking more images.
I am experimenting a bit this evening. In addition to my 3D printed lens baffle (which might be especially useful given there's a basically full Moon out there) I'm using my 3D printed tripod powerbank holder, and I'm also trying out using 60 second exposures instead of 30 seconds. If I can use 60 second exposures without getting too much trailing it would be good, as it would halve the number of individual images I need to handle and would also increase overall signal to noise ratio a bit too.
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@spacelizard@aus.social 2026-07-02 13:06
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.