Molniya 2-14 and unidentified streak
666 views · Published 16 July 2010 · 0:38 · Indexed 10 October 2026
Channel: Astronomy Live · 2010 · Science & Technology
Recorded on the morning of 7-11-10 at 3:07 AM. This is a time lapse covering several minutes, each frame for the last half of the video was exposed for 2 seconds. The exposure time was decreased from the beginning of the video which is why it appears to suddenly accelerate. I'll have to comb through the orbital information from that night and see if any known satellites match that streak. It would be very rare for two satellites to appear in the same field of view telescopically simultaneously, so while they may not have actually been close together physically as they may have had very different altitudes, it was still a somewhat unique capture.
