Hi all Observed and photographed a nice bright long flare of KH USA 129 (96-072A) half an hour ago. It made a zenith pass near 20:21 UTC here (March 10). When it cleared the roof edge in the zenith and came into my view, it was very bright: mag. 0 to possibly -1 peaking on or before 20:21:20 UTC. When my camera opened a few seconds later it was already past peak brightness but still very bright, fading slowly. The image can be seen here: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2007/03/flaring-keyhole-usa-129.html Positions will follow later when I have measured the image. There was some persistent cirrus only slowly dissolving after sunset, hence I lost the earlier Lacrosse passes of this evening. Happy to have catched this flare though. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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