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Yes it's perfect now! The height is still depending of a lot of atmospheric things, so you have to tweak refraction pressure a bit to have a perfect match, but all in all extremely close. But with refraction off, the height is way off so maybe it...

I just fixed some accuracy issues for precisely this type of thing. @ThomasH had a nice photo of the sunrise behind a building where the sun was horizontally off by half a degree and vertically off slightly. The exact DTLDs were known. The fixes...

Wow Mick, this will be super useful!

Astrometry.net often works very well for finding where in the sky we are looking, but is not great with frames from videos that are noisy or contain other moving objects. So I created a star tracker that attempts to resolve what lights in the...

Quick update: I have now reached 84% recall rate compared to VASCO. I still have about 17K tiles to download and process, so the recall rate should hit at least 90%. That's a pretty good number. The unpublished third-party list "V" (107K rows)...

This is fixed. The problem was to do with a mismatch between Google's 3D tiles and the base elevation. The tiles are high resolution, and the position of this camera on a curving slope meant the camera though it was underground.

I have duplicated this and will address it ASAP

I think very few people here are saying that anything beyond the current paradigm is theoretically impossible. But that's beside the point—and ultimately irrelevant. Whether someone believes or disbelieves something doesn't change reality...

Hi Mick, I found you searching for something that would help with Starlink Flare verification. I am part of the MUFON Photo Analysis Team and Investigations. I like what I am finding with your program. I look forward to using this with high value...

Works for me, in the sense that it tries to motion track the background. But it's too noisy for the current algorithms.

No, @rmoore already identified the stars. The image isn't flipped.

That looks like a good match in some ways. https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=1/Park%20City%20UT%20Small%20Plane%2026%20July%2026/20260730_211007.js The stars match 100%, but from Heber Valley the CSS is actually skimming the head of...

I think the CSS should also be considered as it had an overhead pass on all four Sensus nights. Trivial to find if we had the date and time.

https://www.instagram.com/reels/DbUjEQ1OA6t/ Bledsoe: We had a wonderful time in Park City Utah with the Sensus class under the stars 7/26 He says 7/26 but also that it was the "Sensus Class", which was July 12-15...

Starlink flare regions are never particularly high in the sky. At most ~20° above the horizon.