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It might be something as simple as the balloon hitting an updraft

In that situation, we were able to very precisely align the LOS through the object with a very detailed background. Just using the pure numbers on screen gave pretty much a random walk. It was a very fiddly manual process, and slight deviations...

When they switch out of 4x to 2x they immediately pan right about 1.2 screens wide. It would be lost in the initial motion blur, and then off screen, even in ULTN

No. These are not particularly accurate numbers. I would not expect a perfect path to pop out. If the object was going screen-up before, why would it not continue after the lock was lost? I think it's very difficult to determine what is going on...

This older starlink tutorial will probably be updated eventually Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkzRJQ3rWa0 There's a help docuement built-in to Sitrec (Help/Documentation) https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/docs/Starlink.html

Some of these are a bit older, but still useful Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6IiVwVLoYc Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbybIhk5Pig

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slA7aV2Mags I've started a series of tutorial videos to get people more quickly up to speed with using Sitrec. The above one on the user Interface should be the starting point (even if you've used Sitrec...

The entire video has likely been through several stages of re-recording, maybe on different systems. But the timecode does seem particularly bad. It goes from 18:21:06 to 18:22:21 (1m 15 sec) over the course of the video, about the right...

It looks like it's a screen being filmed, so not the original footage - tell-tale signs being (a) the above; and (b) tearing/sync issues. If so, we now have twice as many degrees of freedom when it comes to mundane imaging issues that can be...

To duplicate the above, drag in the video first, and then the drone and ground tracks. Then set the camera track to the drone and "follow target" I've updated the MQ9 UI to display more of what we see...

Rough Sitch https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=https://sitrec.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1/Syria 2021/20260204_183340.js For some reason I got the video exported at 60fps, so frames reflect that. It's actually at 30, so I'll have to redo a...

This is not necessarily the case. Some objects can be more reflective than emissive. Hypothetically speaking, if this object was a mylar balloon it could be reflecting IR from its surroundings more than the heat and IR from within. Here's an...

I've updated Sitrec to handle most coordinate formats, including MGRS (Military Grid). So any of the following formats should work if you paste it in the lookup box. 37S CR 11926 9292332.45836.999 37SCR119269292332.45836.999...

It'd treat these numbers with caution. The ELV is fixed at 1725FT. however at that spot it's 3620 ft.

Yeah, and it's interesting how much bigger it gets at different gain levels inside a 5M box. I think at most it's 1m wide, and likely half that or less. Small, cold, not really moving much....