Having gone through the images from early this morning ...there are 50 or so useable frames ........, there's an interesting sequence of four grabs , all taken within a second at about 79 deg elevation. http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/satcom_transits/lacsm.gif I'll load the full animation later. What I find interesting about this sequence is that it is similar to Phil Masding's taken this time last year. About 5-10 seconds after these frames were grabbed , Lacrosse 5 cloaked up .....well before it should have gone into shadow. So , how could something so bright disappear in such a short time. It wasn't tumbling or rotating.The only other thing I noticed is that rather than flaring , it seemed to "glint" Is the large bright centre the antenna and the small "tails" the solar panels ? John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl> To: "John Locker" <john@satcom.freeserve.co.uk>; "satellite list" <SeeSat-L@satobs.org> Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 9:02 AM Subject: Re: Lacrosse 5 > > > John Locker wrote: > >> However as it passed through north , it simply snuffed out.....no fading >> , as if someone had turned off the light. > > That is a quite good description yes: it all happens in the blink of an > eye. > > Pushed by your description of something bright going dark in your video, I > wonder whether it is a case of a surface with a sharp reflectance cutt-off > at certain angles. > >> Hopefully , Marco or Phil may have seen the same pass. > > Alas, I was clouded out here. > >> All in all , quite an interesting experience. > > Yep. The plot thickens! > > - Marco > > > ----- > Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 > Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL > > SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html > Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com > Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml > e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl > ----- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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