Saturday, August 14, 2021

NOSS Double in Milky Way

Only one bright perseid meteor and a couple of faint ones during an hour observation from UT20h15-21h30 on August 13th. As the sky was very clear I decided to take some pictures of the milky way using my wide field lens 10-24mm. It's clear that the sky is overloaded with satellites and satellite debris as all of my pictures have at least one satellite trace. The picture shows a double trace of the Naval Ocean Surveillance System. This "NOSS Double" is formed by NOSS 3-7(A) and NOSS 3-7(R).