Hi all, Just observed a pass of Lacrosse 5 (05-016A) under somewhat chaotic conditions (involving cats and neighbours...), and saw it disappear and then re-appear again. Initially it was bright, around mag. 0. I was aiming the camera and about to trigger it when in a few seconds time it disappeared. This was at about 20:19:30 UTC (+/- 5-10 seconds, I do not entirely trust my memory here for reasons stated below). It re-appeared again at 20:19:50 +/- 5 seconds at magnitude +1 (this time is stuck better in my memory), close to Capella. The re-appearance was rather quick too, took only a few seconds. From that point on I could follow it, gradually fading to mag. +2, to beyond Ursa Major where I lost it behind the building. I obtained two trail images following the re-appearance. The observation was a bit chaotic because my neighbour started a chat with me and I was explaining my observations to her when Lacrosse 5 disappeared (hence why the time of that event did not entirely stuck in my memory. I think it was 20:19:30, and certainly not more than 10 seconds before and after that). Meanwhile her black cat was meowing about and hugging my tripod, which I didn't like because of the camera shaking this could induce, so I gently had to get the animal away from the tripod without offending my neighbour by too harsh countermeasures against her beloved pet.... ;-) Positions will follow later after I have measured the images... - 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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