Re: starlink bright flare

From: Austin Godber via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 13:53:19 -0700
I also saw maybe half a dozen very bright Starlink flares last night
(Sunday May 3rd 2020) from Tempe, AZ, US (33.393671, -111.926244) at around
0330Z.  They passed between Venus and Capella and some appeared to exceed
Venus' brightness.  I think I've found which ones from Celestrak, maybe
STARLINK-1127, STARLINK-1193, STARLINK-1194 (there are a number of others
in that train they could have been).  Screenshot from celestrak available
in the link below:

https://imgur.com/a/kf3dqTX

These were really remarkably bright, I am not a well trained observer, but
at least one of them seemed far brighter than Venus.

- Austin

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 7:54 PM Kevin Fetter via Seesat-l <
seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote:

> On May 1, around 13:13:19 utc, starlink 1-80 ( 44282 ) flared to negative
> range. Only had a very short view. before the roof of the house blocked the
> view,
>
> Sat was around
>
> 13 h 58 m R.A
> -11 deg 59 min Dec
>
> At that time.
>
> Kevin
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