Hi all, Last night at 20h22 UTC I took a series of 6-sec photos of a large field near Beta Leo, while imaging a nice pass of Breeze-M 2008-57B (obj 33437 Astra 1M Tank) On an unique photo I spotted also a bright flare of a very slow satellite. Using Calsky I immediately identified it as object 29670, 2006-62 A (orbiting at about altitude 19000 km). I estimated that the flare was possibly of magnitude 5-6 (since I failed to notice it visually while watching carefully the field) and certainly of less than a half second duration. The satellite remained fainter than mag 11 during all my observation because nothing else but the short flare was recorded on my photos. I am used to find passes of very slow satellites (orbiting higher than 10000 km and up to 40000 km ) recorded on some of my photos (of course without counting all geostationary satellites I am currently observing), but that's the first time I happen to record a flaring so sharp and so short of one of them. Alain Figer 48.67 N ; 2.13 E ; 170 m a.s.l. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120425/4bdbdc4c/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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