Iridium flare (enhanced)

uploaded by Brendan Loy August 11, 2009 at 10:39 am
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This is a zoomed-in, digitally enhanced version of my Iridium flare photo. There's a lot of noise, obviously, but you can also clearly see the entire flare -- 68 seconds' worth of satellite movement, brightening and dimming -- as well as the constellation Pegasus that it flew through.

Photo enhanced in GraphicConverter for OS X. I'm sure somebody could do a smoother, less noisy enhancement, but alas, I'm not very good at digital photo manipulation (and I don't have Photoshop), so this was the best I could do.

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NP! ID: 2432690
Title: Iridium flare (enhanced)
File Size: 1718 × 1356 – 1.07 MB

Created: Tue, 08/11/2009 - 10:39am
Modified: Tue, 08/11/2009 - 10:39am

File Type: image (jpeg)

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