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 >_______________________________________________ >Seesat-l mailing list >http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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