2020 June 4 Starlink-7 train

Video by Mike Feldman, Champaign, Illinois, USA. Video at the bottom of this page.

Here's an annotated frame from the video (stretched pretty hard):

Here's the solve-field output images:


The night after the Space-X Starlink cluster 7 was launched it was visible from my Bortle 6-7 neighborhood in Champaign, IL USA. I was not able to see the train naked eye, and at the time I was too tired to drive out to a dark site. But my Sony Alpha 7Sii (the camera that can see in the dark!) actually was able to pick the train out of the light pollution. And as an added bonus, I caught a meteor a few seconds into the pass. I was moving the camera manually on a ball head, and jumped when I saw the meteor, so the tail end of it's trail makes a little 'J'.I was also kicking the ISO up as I was shooting, to a final value of 25600 from 12800 during this clip. I was shooting with the Sony 90mm Macro lens.

You can just make out the train entering the frame about 2/3 down on the left side. Best viewed in a dark room full screen on a big monitor or large tablet ... you might not be able to see it on a phone.