Gerhard HOLTKAMP wrote: > Does anybody have a compact list of all the Lacrosse 5 disappearance > observations done so far so we can do more checks? A friend also asked me this in private, and this was my answer: Going back to my records I find two other occasions that I more or less timed (to an accuracy of a few seconds as approximately indicated below, as my focus was on preparing the camera for a new shot). Timings refer to the moment brightness notably started to drop. My estimate, more or less confirmed by yesterdays photograph is that brightness goes from +1.5 to invisible by the naked eye within 2-3 seconds. 2006 March 11, 19:15:05 (+/- 10 s) UTC 2006 March 14, 19:09:41 (+/- 3 s) UTC On the 26th the Lacrosse lights went out at: 2006 July 26, 22:58:37 (+/- 2 s) UTC I also have notes, without precise times, of failing to pick it up at 2006 March 6 and 2006 March 22 (the latter at the 19:30 pass). Pierre Neirinck initially also failed to observe it during that pass and saw it re-appear low in the sky at 19:33 UTC (from his home in France). In the cases I observed it did re-appear in one case (March 14, but not very bright) but I didn't time that. Note that I do not have visibility below 40 degrees altitude from my location so if it re-appears there I cannot see it. - 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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