Hello Björn, Looking again at the article on Spaceflightnow.com I doubt it was the Dragon capsule. It made a de-orbit burn at 21:23 UT and landed 22:17 UT in the Pacific Ocean. So it must have been far more than 10 seconds preceding ISS. Leo 2018-08-05 7:06 GMT+02:00 Leo Barhorst <leobarhorst_at_gmail.com>: > Björn, > > The object you saw in front of ISS was the Dragon capsule. > It was released Aug 3 at 16:38 UT. > > Regards > Leo > > 2018-08-04 23:54 GMT+02:00 Björn Gimle via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>: > >> > >> > On "vacation" in Provence I had a (for me) terrific pass of ISS, >> ascending >> > from the NE to Vega near zenith around 20:56 UT. The frequent evening >> > thunderstorm cleared just in time to let me target Vega before ISS >> appeared >> > behind trees. Preceding by about 10 s was a (mag +2 Dragon?) object. >> >> But without my Windows tools I was utterly unsuccessfull in identifying >> and posting my image. Heavens-Above did not show an object preceding the >> ISS, "so you want to track satellites" facebook showed me posts, but no >> field to post my text + image(s). And nova.astronometry.net did not >> accept >> any input at the moment. >> >> >> >> -- >> -------------------------------------------------------- >> Björn Gimle, COSPAR 5919 >> 59.2617 N, 18.6169 E, 51 m >> Satellite observation formats described: >> http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html >> --------------------------------------------------------- >> _______________________________________________ >> Seesat-l mailing list >> http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l >> > > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sun Aug 05 2018 - 00:28:14 UTC
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