I'm sorry about asking this since I'm quite a newbie when it comes to identifying unknown satellites, but sadly, the following video is being touted by the local media as an UFO seen from my city, Bahía Blanca (latitude 38º 44' 06" S, longitude 62º 14' 02" W) on the evening of Monday, April 4th, 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPikxwZgmjQ Since it seemed to me this was nothing but some satellite flare, I decided to look into the issue and try to identify it. I grabbed a screenshot from the 2m8s mark on the video, deleted the satellite using Photoshop, and Astrometry.net promptly identified the sky area as part of the constellation Columba: http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/663199#annotated So basically, this would put the unidentified satellite almost "touching" the star Xi Columbae (HIP 28010) at 07:20:53pm, and the star Gamma Columbae (HIP 28199) at 07:20:57pm, assuming the video timestamp is accurate (which the observer that videotaped this claims to be). Taking this into account, I've done searches for known satellites using Stellarium and Heavens-Above.com and have come empty-handed in both cases. I have no doubt someone on this list will be able to easily check this, or at least provide some advice on how to deepen the search. Thanks in advance, Ricardo J. Tohmé rtohme_at_gmail.com _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Tue May 05 2015 - 23:13:12 UTC
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