R: Help identifying mystery flare and two satellites flying side by side

From: satrack@libero.it
Date: Mon Jul 09 2012 - 12:24:54 UTC

  • Next message: Paul Floyd: "Re: Help identifying mystery flare and two satellites flying side by side"

    Paul,
    
    you saw TANDEM X (36605) and TERRA SAR X (31698).
    They were really close each other. You can check them on the map
    at this link (zoom in the sky chart to separate them)
    
    http://www.satflare.com/track.php?q=36605,31698&cchart=1&JD=2456117.
    85814595&lat=-35.37&lon=149.117&alt=0
    
    (copy the whole link)
    
    Do you think both of them were flaring? 
    
    Regards,
    Simone
    
    
    >----Messaggio originale----
    >Da: p.n.floyd@gmail.com
    >Data: 9-lug-2012 12.57
    >A: "Seesat List"<seesat-l@satobs.org>
    >Ogg: Help identifying mystery flare and two satellites flying side by side
    >
    >Hi,
    >
    >I am just wondering if someone could help identify a mystery flare and
    >what looked like two satellites flying side by side about 1/8 degree
    >apart. I was out walking the dog around Mt. Taylor (Suburb: Kambah /
    >City: Canberra (Australia)) when a bright flare of light made me look
    >up. By the time, I looked up the flare of light was still about as
    >bright as Jupiter. It must have been brighter to start with to catch
    >my eye. While I watched the flare quickly faded away leaving two
    >individual dots of light. These faded from view a couple of seconds
    >later. There was a definite gap between the two objects.
    >
    >By the time I got my mobile phone out of my day pack to check the time
    >it was 6.36pm AEST (take off ten hours for UT conversion) and that
    >should be 8.36 UT 9 July 2012. The satellite was heading to the left
    >of Corvus and towards Mars. At a guess, it was 80 degrees above the
    >horizon and heading the the North West horizon.
    >
    >Any help would be appreciated in identifying these objects.
    >
    >Regards,
    >
    >Paul Floyd.
    >www.nightskyonline.info
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