Through the intermediate of Jean Meeus, I obtained two photographs of Comet Ikeya-Zhang with a 'meteor' trail, taken by SAF members in France. The two stations are only 20 km apart, and the trail has a small parallax, indicating that it is not a meteor, but a satellite reflection. Also the light curve supports this. Unfortunately, I am not able to get a meaningful triangulation of the trail, nor do I find an Iridium flare candidate :-( The data: 8 April 2002, between 20h13 and 20h40 UT average location: 48 43' N, 3 17' E, 135 m trail approx between RA = 0h41m, Decl = 48 40' and RA = 0h50m, Decl = 46 30' (Az 155 deg, Elev 12 deg, low in the northwest) Anyone who can crack this problem? Thanks, Chris ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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