On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Michael Boschat <aa063@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote: > I had been out to my parents place having my birthday dinner and it was a > nice night to take my trusty Odyssey out for some quality observing. My > father came out to see saturn, M3 and a few others when we were scanning the > NE and saw something bright, figuring Plane, Satellite, Satellite debris we > shrugged it off. The explanation is below :) > > I was standing outside observing in Canes Venatici, Leo and Ursa Major when > I looked in between Ursa Major and Cassieopeia in the contellation Draco, I > had seen an object that was very stationary flare up to near 1.5 times the > brightness of Venus by the time I could swing my cold dob around and line up > with my Telrad it was gone. > > What the heck was it? I checked for Iridium flares, ISS, Satellites in the > area at the time. I have seen plenty of airplanes landing in my lifetime as > well, this was no airplane. Could it have been a fragment from one of the > satellites that collided and headed directly for me, since it wasn't > moving at all? who knows! > > I was standing at 44.6333°N, 63.5833°W and the time was 21:15 Atlantic > Daylight Savings Time, any possible answers would be great! Iridium 31 (24950, 1997-051-G) mag -7 flare predicted to peak at 00:13:25 UT, Cheers ... Rod ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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