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UFO-Norge received a message from an Amateur astronomer who photographed Mars through a telescope Helios using the camera Casio EX-Z750 digital. He reports that for the first time took a picture at 18:45 with an exposure of 4 seconds, but was very vague. Two minutes later he made another picture, this time with 1/8 second exposure. In this photo he is also registered three strip lights.
Birger Andresen (Trondheim astronomical society) checked for possible satellites, and found that triple satellite is really passed in front of or near the position of Mars, but time was a little different.
Later it turned out that the time on the digital camera was also shot down, and when corrected it fits perfectly with the passage of the satellite. It was actually the NOSS (Naval Ocean Surveillance System) a formation of three satellites. Normally these satellites are relatively dim and not very visible to the naked eye, but sometimes they become bright enough to be easily seen in the dark sky.
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20 November 2005, 18:59 – Trondheim UFO-Norge received a report from an amateur astronomer, who had photographed Mars through a Helios telescope, using a Casio EX-Z750 digital camera. He reports that he first took a photo at 18:45 with an exposure time of 4 seconds, but it came out very fuzzy. Two minutes later he took another photograph, this time with 1/8 second exposure time. On this photo he also registered three streaks of light. Birger Andresen (Trondheim Astronomical Society) checked for possible satellites, and found that a triple satellite had indeed passed in front of or near the position of Mars, but the time was a little off. Later it was found that the time on the digital camera was a little off as well, and when corrected it fits perfectly with the satellite’s passing. This was actually a NOSS (Naval Ocean Surveillance System) satellite formation, having three satellites in close proximity to each other. Normally these satellites are relatively dim to the unaided eye, but on occasion they brighten sufficiently to be easily seen in a dark sky.
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Ordinary satellites, which often look like single, not very bright luminous dots moving smoothly in the night sky, are quite often mistaken for UFOs. After the Starlink satellites (near-Earth satellite systems developed by SpaceX, in order to create a cheap and high-performance satellite Internet communication channel and technical transmitters for receiving and transmitting signals from earth and orbit) were launched, it became possible to observe groups of satellites (up to 60 pieces) flying one after another.
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