Post #3608525
2026-07-04 07:24 UTC
@btschumy@mas.to The length depends on exposure time and satellite speed and the projection angle. The satellite speed depends on the height of the orbit. We’re looking at numerous satellites orbiting the Earth at roughly the same height but at different inclinations. @allsumnull@mastodon.cloud @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
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@btschumy@mas.to 2026-07-04 13:44
@cgudrian@social.tchncs.de @allsumnull@mastodon.cloud @sundogplanets@mastodon.social Thanks. I hadn’t thought about it being a stack of short exposures. However, if that’s the case, I would expect the satellite trails to be a series of dashes following a line. That’s assuming the sub exposures were taken one after the other. It is a curious image. It also looks like the post has been deleted for some reason.