Re: 2018AUG3 Provence

From: Leo Barhorst via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2018 07:27:43 +0200
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.
>>
>>
>>
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