Aidan 🇵🇸🇱🇧allsumnull@mastodon.cloud
Jul 4, 2026, 1:13 AM@sundogplanets have NZ folks already shared Brendan Larsen’s picture of Mt Taranaki with you?
Shared on FB. His website is here: https://www.blarsenphoto.com
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Bill Tschumybtschumy@mas.toJul 4, 2026, 3:53 AM@allsumnull @sundogplanets I’m not quite sure what we are looking at. The trails are much shorter than typical satellite trails. They also have a surprisingly uniform length. The somewhat random angles of the trails are also perplexing. Did the photographer say that he thinks these are satellites?
midormidor@mastodon.socialJul 4, 2026, 4:48 AM@btschumy @allsumnull @sundogplanets Yes he did on FB and during his radio interview: https://youtu.be/CuGn-Ch2W9g?is=TUf1-dkZv9Aq-d_y
- Aidan 🇵🇸🇱🇧allsumnull@mastodon.cloudJul 4, 2026, 6:43 AM
@midor @btschumy @sundogplanets thanks for sharing the details. I should have taken a screencap of the post as you have done.
Jon Lrelayer370@universeodon.comJul 4, 2026, 11:54 AM@midor @btschumy @allsumnull@mastodon.cloud @sundogplanets
Can you edit your post and remove everything past the ? In your YouTube URL? Youtube has been adding people for messaging using the tracking id. "?is=TUf1-dkZv9Aq-d_y"
Christian Gudriancgudrian@social.tchncs.deJul 4, 2026, 7:24 AM@btschumy 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 @sundogplanets
- Bill Tschumybtschumy@mas.toJul 4, 2026, 1:44 PM
@cgudrian @allsumnull @sundogplanets 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.
Kate HildenbrandrootsandcallusesJul 4, 2026, 5:49 AM@allsumnull I logically know how many satellites we have in LEO now but it will never keep surprising me just how many there are. I did some night sky photography when we visited NZ before moving there for a year (2016), and there were no hundreds of satellites destroying our photos yet. This happened so damned fast.
Jul 4, 2026, 7:13 AM@allsumnull @sundogplanets That image and the whole site is breathtaking.
Bucketlist has a new entry. --> Go NZ :-)
