Thank you for this info, I have received and investigated Babak Tafreshi's images. Two of his images seem to contain a long trail - we expected (at least) two satellites (+rocket) from this launch - and a 30s exposure should give a shorter trail. So my conclusion is that it shows (at least) two satellites trailing each other. The last picture (15s) seems to show an interrupted track (two objects trailing), but also one slightly offset. I would have expected the rocket (brighter) to be visible at the pointed tip of the cloud, but can't see it. If we can get times to the nearest second, or at least interval between images, we can improve the orbit determinations. -- Björn Gimle -- -- COSPAR 5918 WGS84, +18.10127 (E), +59.29813 (N), 44 m -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, +18.6206 (E), +59.2615 (N), 33 m -- -- COSPAR 5920, FRUVIK,+18.4820 (E), +59.3260 (N), 11 m -- ----- Original Message ----- From: "pouria nazemi" <pnazemi@gmail.com> To: <seesat-l@satobs.org> Dear All, We have received a set of new reports of observation about Iranian Mystery Cloud. Some witnesses from Saadat Shahr (30.202 N, 53.180 E) , Arak (34.089 N , 49.696E) , Krmanshah (34.314N, 47.065 E), reported that they saw 2,3 and in one case 4 bright point under the cloud that moving with it. I don’t receive any photo of these event but in any city more than one observer report this multi bright points. Babak A.Tafreshi ,Oshin Zakarian and I, in Tehran (Dizin) couldn’t saw the bright point during observation and we find it in photos. So I think may be it is important to analysis of this event. Is there any explanation about few bright points in this case? Pouria Tehran (35.672N, 51.424E ) -- Pouria Nazemi Science Journalist Jam-e-Jam Daily Newspaper Science Editor. (www.jamejamonline.ir) Nojum (Persian Astronomy) website news editor.(www.nojum.ir) Astronomical Society of Iran - outreach committee (www.asiac.ir) Tel: Office +98 (21) 2222 25 11/ Science service Cell Phone 912 240 48 59 P.O.Box: 16535-479, Tehran,Iran www.pnazemi.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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