An all sky camera in Germany captured a bright flare from a slow moving object through the constellation of Virgo last night. The track matches that of Trumpet 1 [23097/94026A]. The flare is visible on this star trails image in the bottom part, just right of the middle: http://www.locastan.de/allsky/startrails/startrails-20200518.jpg I can also be seen on the movie created from the same image http://www.locastan.de/allsky/videos/allsky-20200518.mp4. The flare starts around 32 seconds into the movie, around 2020-05-19 00:00 (time in CEST). My all sky camera was unfortunately clouded out, but inspection of the data from the previous night (May 17/18, 2020), shows a weaker flare around 2020-05-17 22:07 UTC, also in Virgo. Check the video at http://www.gemmaencees.nl/allsky/videos/allsky-20200517.mp4, around 15 seconds in the video. The match to Trumpet 1 seems secure, given the a flare in roughly the same location on the sky, even though the elements are about 26 days old. Observers in Europe might want to keep an eye out for possible other flares of Trumpet 1. Regards, Cees _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Tue May 19 2020 - 12:48:37 UTC
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