Great to hear you were able to observe the fuel dump! An all-sky camera on Cerro Paranal, where ESO has the Very Large Telescope, also shows the fuel dump. The timing is identical; it is first seen on the 90 sec integration starting at 06:25:22 UT and fades out of view around 07:00UT. Here are the images obtained between 06:00UT and 08:00UT combined into an animated gif. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/52579487/gssap_fuel_dump_MASCOT.gif At 06:25UT it is offset by a few degrees from HD194013 (20:23:10, +05:20:34). This location is directly on the imaginary geostationary ring as seen from Cerro Paranal (+4.04 deg Declination). Furthermore, this location is within a degree or so from where Ted Molczan's estimated elements for object 70503 predicted the first apogee (at 05:32UT). The all-sky camera images do not show anything at that time, when the upper stage would have performed the circularization burn. Regards, Cees _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Tue Jul 29 2014 - 12:04:31 UTC
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