Hi everyone, Thanks a lot Ted ! With the help of elset 70003 (70002 did not give good results), I was able to observe the insertion burn of the Centaur stage. Weather was very cold and I had only 10 minutes to get prepared because I was working on Starshine 3 structural parts and came back home just before the observation. Without knowing the exact location of that burn and because my city sky is not dark, I had trouble spotting the cloud produced by the burn. When I first spotted it, I thought it was a nebula or a globular cluster. I don't know my sky very well and I decided to wait, while holding my 20x80 by hand, to see if it was drifting and it was ! The time of the first observation is uncertain since I was not sure what it was and I did not want to lose its location. I figure it was around 03:45 UT. Its size was about 20 arc minutes and magnitude around 5. I waited for the propellant dump but clouds moved in in that area of the sky. The burn cloud remained visible in my binocs for about 5 minutes. It was grossly triangular in shape. My girlfriend also saw it using my 7x35. Nice observation ! Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine Drummondville, Quebec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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