I decided to shoot the satellite that Heaven-Above advises, which AST used, is called BlueWalker 3 (BW3).
BW3 is a 64m2 commercial communications array about the size of a garage for two or three cars and the largest ever deployed in low Earth orbit, AST said in a press release.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230621154227/enInitially, I looked at the information about him on the Internet inattentively and thought that he was 64 x 64 meters - I think, wow! this is a satellite. I'm looking at a small diamond, I think I may have confused it - no, everything is for sure. Then I realized that 64kv meters, and the satellite itself is 8 by 8 meters the size of a solar battery
If I knew that it was small, it was possible to put less ROI and write 300-400fps, I thought it was half the size of the ISS and put 512x512 dots. The satellite is bright enough from +4m to +2m brightness reaches, you can observe with the naked eye. The size of the dried-out square on the edges of the solar panel is only 1.33 x 1.33 meters.
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BlueWalker 3 20.07.2023 03:26:50 - 03:28: 26 (local time), the height of the satellite at the climax is 64 degrees. Monty LX200 MadMax. seeing 1/5, transparency 4/5. (1 - bad, 5 - excellent). Monty LX200 MadMax. Pipe Meade ACF 16" f/10 automated focuser myFP2 + automated eADC + Baader IR-cut + Barlow Refinery 2x (1.6x in this configuration) + playerOne imx585. 247fps 512x512, 16raw, shutter speed 2.7ms (smears too much), gain 364 [25, 0, 785], ( filling gist. 50%). Addition of 7-14% of 1200 adjacent frames in AS!3, drizzle 1.5x PixInsight, animation 100%, photo 200%. (the pixel scale of the original is ~0.09”/pixel).
flight animation:
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