Astra 2E: General Discussion (Post-Testing)

[Luniman]

Very important news! The one you all have been wating for!

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.. and as reply to the previous message. - Didn't They?

Wow, a lot of action out there tonight, you didnt have a tripod mis-function to get them all moving did you ? ;-)

 

[skomedal]

Very important news! The one you all have been wating for!

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.. and as reply to the previous message. - Didn't They?

Is the watermark the joke "" join the ses morris dancers today "" ????

 

[M60]

That watermark amused me somewhat.

There was five satellites in last night's photo, only three now. Assuming 1H has now moved on, which other satellite has also moved or is one something else?

 

[Huevos]

Lets see what happens now 1H has passed by 43E, if 2E is raised higher in orbit, as per 2F and moves 1.6W/day

That is 3 months worth of station keeping fuel to save a few days. What would be the point?

 

[skomedal]

Think you and others have been duped.

Cannot think WGs setup can give the results you all hunger after


""" Equipment is sort of standard stuff, Canon 7D and a 100mm/f2,0 lens.
The most important part is the tripod, really heavy and stable (can be used
as a ladder). Finding the sweet spot where noise is low helps a lot.
ISO 200, black frame subtraction and cold weather in my case.
The lens covers 12 degrees horizontally, usefull to get many satellites to
identify a single new one among them. Some randomly disappear when
no reflexions come in your direction."""

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Might be wrong

 

[Lazarus]

Errm, on Digital Spy there is a claim that the mooted changes (Whatever they may be) of last night are due tonight.

I shall lose no sleep over this.

 

[BLUEPLATINUM]

Errm, on Digital Spy there is a claim that the mooted changes (Whatever they may be) of last night are due tonight.

I shall lose no sleep over this.

Surely if it happened last night then someone using a generic receiver would have reported having to rescan the 2A TPs to update the PIDs. Assuming nothing happened last night then all the previous speculation could still hold true.

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[M60]

Errm, on Digital Spy there is a claim that the mooted changes (Whatever they may be) of last night are due tonight.

I shall lose no sleep over this.

Me neither!

 

[Huevos]

Think you and others have been duped.

Cannot think WGs setup can give the results you all hunger after[...]

Might be wrong

Based on what?

 

[dxsat]

I had an email from someone in Spain tonight reporting lost HD channels. Awaiting verification.

 

[Huevos]

I had an email from someone in Spain tonight reporting lost HD channels. Awaiting verification.

Which HD channels?

 

[gambit]

Some old photos of geostationary satellites:

http://www.eclipsetours.com/paul-maley/artificial-satellite-observations/geostationary-satellites/

 

[Huevos]

Think you and others have been duped.

Cannot think WGs setup can give the results you all hunger after

Well I thought I would give this a go from my location (that has terrible light pollution).

Used Nikon D50. 105mm, f/1.8 lens wide open, 1600 iso. Stack of five 30 second exposure pictures. Even under these poor viewing conditions photo clearly shows satellites along the Clark belt. Darkframe shows nothing that corresponds to these spots.

I would have thought WG, should be able to do a lot better than this as his location is much colder and further from light pollution.

 

[solly]

good morning today astra 1h near the turksat
42.10 east is still move west

 

[kevjs]

Surely if it happened last night then someone using a generic receiver would have reported having to rescan the 2A TPs to update the PIDs. Assuming nothing happened last night then all the previous speculation could still hold true.

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King of Sat is reporting some PID changes on "Eutelsat 28A, 28.2°E" - e.g.

• (22h53) Freesat & Sky Digital: New PID for Bloomberg U.K.: PID:2404/2405 English SID:52550 (11426.00MHz, pol.V SR:27500 FEC:2/3 - Clear).
• (22h53) Freesat & Sky Digital: New PID for France 24 (in English): PID:2418/2421 English SID:52570 (11426.00MHz, pol.V SR:27500 FEC:2/3 - Clear).

My media centre hasn't needed a retune (the SID's being unchanged might be enough though)

 

[cazhh]

good morning today astra 1h near the turksat
42.10 east is still move west

TLE update is already pretty old. SES has more current values:

SUBJECT: ELEVEN PARAMETER EPHEMERIS FOR Astra-1H/ 52.30 DEG. E

YEAR  MONTH  DAY  HOUR  MINUTE  SECOND
2013  11    28  03    45      00

THE EPHEMERIS VALUES ARE:

LM0            LM1              LM2
DEG. E          DEG/DAY          DEG/DAY/DAY
42.7718      -0.5987            0.000877

It seems to slow down a bit.

2E is according to the latest TLE still at 43.5. Next one will be interesting.

 

[M60]

Is that a change from 43.5E?

 

[cazhh]

Is that a change from 43.5E?

too many numbers that early in the morning. I meant 43.5

 

[Lazarus]

Well I thought I would give this a go from my location (that has terrible light pollution).

Used Nikon D50. 105mm, f/1.8 lens wide open, 1600 iso. Stack of five 30 second exposure pictures. Even under these poor viewing conditions photo clearly shows satellites along the Clark belt. Darkframe shows nothing that corresponds to these spots.

I would have thought WG, should be able to do a lot better than this as his location is much colder and further from light pollution.

Nice work.

 

[dxsat]

I had an email from someone in Spain tonight reporting lost HD channels. Awaiting verification.

Channels back after a reboot, apparently. Perhaps there was some change of PID overnight.