Cosmic super-highway

[MarkS]

Friday night I tried imaging the Witch Head Nebula near Rigel.  Conditions were a bit murky to be honest. 

Of course it passes through the area of sky where all the geostationary satellites live so I created a 140 frame animation of what looks like a cosmic superhighway.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Ky5pyZvsINQlJwd3diVnRlU1k

For best quality download it first to your PC.

You can just about make out where the Witch Head is because of the absence of stars.

Mark

[Fay]

Unbelievable Mark


Fay

[The Thing]

Great Scott! I thought it was mostly full of stars!) Love the bit where a whole cluster go past, wonder how close they really were.

[JohnP]

That is pretty cool Mark - not seen that before - nice one - John.

PS - look forward to seeing Witches head - I love that Neb...

[RobertM]

Good idea and quite a revelation too.  It's getting quite crowded up there isn't it !

[Kenny]

They don't look very geostationary to me  .