Hi guys – here is an image I captured on May 5th at 9:32 p.m. PDT (California, -7:00 hours UTC) of Cosmos 2369 rocket body as it passed through the Big Dipper, in particular, close to the star Megrez (delta Ursae Majoris), a visual Magnitude 3.32 star. Image details: Meade Series 5000 80mm APO refractor with a Canon 20D mounted in prime focus configuration on a Losmandy G-11 Gemini mount, 30-second exposure at ISO 800, Tungsten white balance. Remote, programmable shutter release, no mirror lock-up used.

This is a crop from one single, original out-of-the-camera shot; the vertical dimension remaining after the crop was the original, full height of the image, but the sides of the image were cropped to end up with a 4x6” final image. The outer parts of the original image seemed boring and lacked much detail (as well as having a problem with vignetting), so they were discarded before the text frame was added. I still ended up with vignetting, but it’s not too visible if you have a dim monitor.

Questions, comments and critiques welcome!

Clear skies!

Paul

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Cosmos 2369 Rocket passes Megrez-cropped 4x6_filtered text frame.jpg (100.8 KB, 54 views)

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Another nice catch, Well done.

Hi Efrain - Thanks again! I was surprised to see it had made the Universe Today "daily image". I found reference to it in an e-mail I got last night. Kind of made me feel proud, in a humble way, that it was selected in the first place. I didn't expect it. It gives me the motive to keep on trying to get more and better images with my setup.

Clear skies!

Paul

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Congrats Paul, soory for my late reponse my system got zapped by lihting and finally recovered today.