Hi Christoffer, On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Christoffer Wallstenius <christoffer.wallstenius@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, this is my first post to this list. Welcome! > At it's highest point in the sky it was pretty much right above me, > probably a tad bit to the east. I've tried to identify it using > heavens-above, but I couldn't find a match. The only ones I found matching > the time, general direction of travel and elevation is Cosmos 1953 and > Coronas F rocket, but I haven't been able to find information about if > they're tumbling or not. Thank you for your description. Unfortunately the uncertainty in the time and location on the sky leaves many possible candidates for your observation. My best guess comes from limiting the search to objects known to be visible to the naked eye; http://celestrak.com/NORAD/elements/visual.txt >From this list I get a reasonable match with SL-14 R/B [11672/80005B], which was the only object in that list that seems to match the direction of travel and timing of your observation. I do not know if this object shows the variability that you describe, but since it is a rocket body it may well do so. If you saw it again after 90 minutes it would've been low (20 deg elevation) in the West, as the Earth had moved underneath the plane of the orbit. Is that where you saw it? Also note that your match with Cosmos 1953 happened an hour earlier, at 23:30UT on August 5th. Are you certain you have not forgotten an extra hour time difference due to summer time? Kind regards, Cees _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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