Just observed a beautifull pass of Lacrosse 5 (2005-016A, #28646). It was very bright, and showed a slow magnitude zero flare at (Aug 06) 23:15:25 +/- 10s UTC. A photograph of the very bright trail fading gradually some seconds after the brightness peak can be seen here: http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/marcoaliaslama/satellites/0608lac5.jpg For the part of the pass that I could observe (roughly from 30 deg altitude NW, where I first picked it up, to 40 deg altitude NE where it moved behind the building) it did not do its 'disappearance trick' this time. I obtained 3 trail photographs during the pass: positions will follow later. -Marco :-) ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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