I’ve recently added an Allsky timelapse camera to the end of my observatory. It’s a ‘The Imaging Source’ camera with a 1.9mm lens, pointing straight up, 640x480px resolution. Taking a thirty second exposure every thirty seconds, it captures the whole sky, all night. The aim is to capture meteors as well as the passing satellites. While the Covid-19 pandemic is in effect, we don’t have too many aircraft at the moment! It’s not perfect, and I’m still working on it!
This timelapse sequence starts at about 20:30 BST and ends about 23:45. At the start you can see the start of the Starlink train, closely followed by the ISS passing over. Shortly after this there appears to be another train of Starlink satellites, and finally at the end of the clip is a helicopter (We live close to the Chinook helicopter RAF base!). The clip has been heavily processed to try and enhance the satellites against the sky. North is to the right (over the house) and the satellites are passing west to east.
