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Community photo entitled  by Fabrizio Pinto on 06/24/2023 at Urla Iskele, Izmir, Türkiye

On 06/24/2023 10:22 pm by Fabrizio Pinto| Urla Iskele, Izmir, Türkiye

Calibration by Astrometry.net provided center coordinates for this image detail as: Center (RA, hms): 11h 50m 49.274s, Center (Dec, dms): +30° 12' 01.710". Radius: 11.423 deg, Pixel scale: 64.6 arcsec/pixel, Orientation: Up is 290.0 degrees E of N. The two bright stars at the bottom right are 53 and 54 UMa. Within the group of stars at top left, the star at far right is Al Dafirah (ϒ Com). The brightest track is the Tiangong space station. Around it, almost 20 Syatlink tracks are easily identifable. This is launch Starlink Group 5-7, 22 June 2023, 07:19, including 47 satellites (https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/launch/falcon-9-block-5-starlink-group-5-7/). Just one night earlier, this launch had dazzled even casual observers in Izmir. However, tonight still under clear skies, no naked eye observation was reported to me besides the dazzling Tiangong.

Canon 500D, 18 mm FL, on a tripod, no tracking, 3200 ISO, 4 bursts of 10 images. The average time was 19:21:49 UTC.

The 40 images were stacked with DeepSkyStacker (DSS), resulting in 30 usable images. The dashes show the proper motion of satellites, whereas DSS overlays the images of fixed stars so as to compensate for the rotation of the Earth. The TIFF image generated by DSS was converted from 32 bit to 16 bit with Photoshop (gamma=1.0), and opened with ASTAP. In ASTAP, the image was converted to mono, flipped vertically and rotated by 90 degrees counterclockwise. A smaller JPG copy was uploaded to Astrometry.net for calibration. A small area of the original image near the Tiangong track was copied to a new file, yielding the present image.