UNKNOWN OBJECT

Alphonse Pouplier (pouplia@interpac.interpac.be)
Thu, 13 Jul 1995 17:54:34 +0200 (MET DST)

 On june 22 1995, I was in PUIMICHEL and preparing my recordings
 for the next rendezvous. After having recorded a passage of MIR,
 I recorded a pass of 22803. When playing the cassette the
 FLASHES (of several seconds) are easily chronometrables.
 
 Gerhart KLAUS made 4 photographs with his SCHMIDT 20/22/30 cm
 and one with his Pentax 6x7 cm 2.4/105 mm. 
 He tracked on the stars. He cutted the track of MIR by means of
 obturations of 1 sec every sec (with his "swiss precision"! 
 Gerhart is a well known Swiss astrophotographer). 
 I just received the wonderfull 23x30 cm photographs he sent me.
 
 But now he ask me for another problem: 
 On april 10 1991, he had made 2 photographs at about 10 min. 
 of interval. On each one, one can see a line made by "a moving
 object". What could it be? 
 Here are the coordinates of that object: 
	   UT   RA 1950  DEC 1950
 A         2005 09h21.8m +24d18m
 B         2010 09h24.5m +24d23m
 C         2014 09h26.7m +24d27m
 D         2019 09h29.4m +24d31m
 One can deduct that the speed (on the stars) is 6.8 deg./hour
 Coul it be a satellite at 65,180 Km height ? 
 If necessary, I can ask him for the coordinates of his obs.place. 

 Alphonse POUPLIER pouplia@interpac.be