{"id":252,"date":"2008-12-23T09:13:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T14:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2008-12-23T09:16:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T14:16:38","slug":"concam-sees-something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2008\/12\/concam-sees-something\/","title":{"rendered":"Concam sees something?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Allsky Concam saw something last night, most likely a low flying aircraft.\u00a0 It appears on two frames, one at <a href=\"\/concam\/special\/sco-20081222_2319_05.fit.jpg\">23:19:05<\/a> local and the other at <a href=\"\/concam\/special\/sco-20081222_2322_25.fit.jpg\">23:22:25 local<\/a>.\u00a0 The first obvious check is to see if the International Space Station went by, but heavens-above.com<a href=\"\/concam\/special\/sco-20081222_2322_25.fit.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"unknown object  pass\" src=\"\/concam\/special\/sco-20081222_2322_25.fit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a> says no.\u00a0 We then checked\u00a0 it against all other bright satellites for the time and nothing.\u00a0 The resolution of these images is low, only 657 x495 pixels but even when blowing this up it does not appear to have typicaly blinking anti-collision lights of an aircraft.\u00a0 And it is brighter than the aircraft we regularly image.\u00a0 Interesting.\u00a0 The complete nights video is at <a href=\"\/concam\/special\/today20081223.gif\">\/concam\/special\/today20081223.gif<\/a> and also shows some more annotation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spaceweather.com\/\">Spaceweather.com<\/a> highlighted another allsky camera system at<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heliotown.com\/Ashcrafts_Fireball_Archive.html\">http:\/\/www.heliotown.com\/Ashcrafts_Fireball_Archive.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>that had an owl come by one night and land on the dome.\u00a0 Very cool!\u00a0 Hope it didn&#8217;t leave any scratches.\u00a0 More and more this highlights the need to look at a video capture system rather than a digital still system I think.\u00a0\u00a0 Granted the video would not be as low light as the ST-237A with 2-4 minute exposures but<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/There_Ain%27t_No_Such_Thing_As_A_Free_Lunch\"> TANSTAAFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Allsky Concam saw something last night, most likely a low flying aircraft.\u00a0 It appears on two frames, one at 23:19:05 local and the other at 23:22:25 local.\u00a0 The first obvious check is to see if the International Space Station went by, but heavens-above.com says no.\u00a0 We then checked\u00a0 it against all other bright satellites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}