Hi everyone, I observed something today that blew me away and I'd like to get some comments on it. At 1628 PDT (2328 UTC) today, June 11, I was attempting to see Arcturus in daylight with an LX200. I had done a sync on the Moon and a Go-To Arcturus and was looking in the 7x finder when I saw a fairly bright object. At first I thought it was Arcturus, but quickly saw that it was moving down in the FOV. After a few seconds I could see that it looked like a short straight line, and after a few more seconds I could clearly see flames and/or smoke coming from the back end of it. Total obs time was about 20-30 seconds. I briefly thought it might be a rocket launch or meteor, but it now seems most likely it was the reentry of a satellite. My location was N 33 48 W 118 03 and Arcturus was at az 79 18 el 19 08 at the time. I didn't manage to see Arcturus (after all, it was in daylight!), but I was probably pretty close to it. If anyone knows of any reentry that might have occurred at this time & location, or if this description sounds like something other than a reentry, please let me know. Thank you. Brad Feinner Los Alamitos N 33 48 02 W 118 03 34 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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