Hi Peter, Both Quicksat and Sathunt give a visible pass for me, with shadow entry near the zenith. So it should have been visible here. Very odd. It must have been faint as seen from my locality at the time I started watching. If it were brigher than +3 I would certainly have seen it (had no problem seeing the rocket an hour earlier at mag +2). - Marco Peter Wakelin wrote: > In message <440C9C59.7050307@wanadoo.nl>, Marco Langbroek > <marco.langbroek@wanadoo.nl> writes >> Hi all, >> >> Indeed, the brightness behaviour of Lacrosse 5 is odd lately. I failed to see it >> both visually and with the camera, nothwithstanding a clear sky and a predicted >> brightness of +2.1, at the 20:21 UTC near-zenith pass here just 10 minutes ago. >> > Marco, I observed it from southern England until after 20:20. Reached > mag 1 possibly zero. I believe it entered shadow near the east coast of > England and long before reaching your zenith. > > Peter -- ----- Dr Marco Langbroek Dutch Meteor Society (DMS) e-mail: meteorites@dmsweb.org private website http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek DMS website http://www.dmsweb.org ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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