Has anyone ever......

[Mav359]

tried to take a picture of a Geo-Stationary satellite???

The reason i ask.....

In work we use a load of different satellites Astra, Hotbird, Eulsat etc etc etc

One of the guys in the SAT's team asked was it possible to get a picture of one or more of them, they are listed in stellarium so they should't be too hard to find but i was wondering if anyone had tried it before?

Cheers

[Steve Ward]

Not intentionally , but I caught one during a session on M31 last year , baffled me for a while as it looked like a very slow moving satellite until I realised that it was trailing because I was tracking the galaxy and the object was actually static ... 

In theory you'll end up just pointing the scope in the right place and switching off the tracking , getting one tiny stationary object against a startrail background.

[Mav359]

Cheers Steve

Just curious really

[Steve Ward]

Couple of good examples here .... 

http://www.noao.edu/outreach/press/pr01/0106images.html