Correction: Apparently that's Cygnus, definately not Ursa Major... I had my location a bit wrong on my star chart! Thanks Russell, Andy. -- *Andy Smith* On 16 May 2013 10:01, Alan Pickup <alan@astrowatch.org> wrote: > I was with a group from the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh in > Roseburn Park in the city last night when we saw a very bright swift > object, roughly mag -1 or -2 and steady, on a W to E trajectory that > carried it a degree or so S of Arcturus at 21:58 UTC. At the time, the > star was 52 degrees high in the SSE. > > Subsequently, I identified this as the Centaur second stage of the Atlas > 5 launch that launched from Cape Canaveral at 21:38. At the time of > observation, the Centaur and its GPS 2F-4 payload were coasting in an > eccentric transfer orbit for which Space-Track has not published a TLE. > Three hours after our observation, the Centaur fired for a second time > to circularise the orbit and release its payload. > > Regards > Alan > > -- > Alan Pickup / > Edinburgh / > Scotland / > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20130516/036528b6/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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