Hi Philip,
I won't be able to help you with this specific object, but I do have some comments and a question.
You say that you have many satellites crossing the sky in one minute. That's really fast! These must be really, really low altitude, and there aren't so many of these as they re-enter rather quickly.
Huge numbers of visible satellites are in the classic orbits, sun-synchronous in the altitude range 650-850 km. Sun-synchronous means that their orbit plane keeps the same angle to the sun, by using the orbital precession (caused mostly by the Earth's equatorial bulge) to exactly compensate for the Earth's revolution around the sun. To do this the inclination has to be close to 98 degrees (it's a weak function of orbital altitude), so conveniently polar, which suits many Earth observation satellites, and makes them visible over much of the world.
At such altitudes the time to cross the sky, from horizon to horizon (although we usually take a 2 degree elevation instead of the horizon for reliable telemetry) is abut 10 minutes. A higher orbit, like Jason-3 at 1336 km, takes about 15 minutes. Then there's quite a large gap with few satellites in circular orbits because of the van Allen radiation belts, which seriously shorten the life of electronics, solar arrays etc. Further out there are GPS, Galilleo etc. navigation satellites with 12 hour orbits.
More interesting, perhaps, are some satellites with highly elliptical orbits, like any astronomy satellites.
Anyway, on to my question:
I've just bought an Oculus and I'm using a Mac. Could you outline your PixInsight workflow, as well as the software you use to acquire images from the Oculus?
cheers,
Richard
