Hi Simone, Bram, all, Seems that GOCE (09-013A) shows some flare-like behaviour now on every culmination sufficiently high in the sky. I again captured a modest brief glint, this time unfortunately on an image somewhat marred by clouds. Flare time is ~17:10:26 UTC (Nov 26) but will have to look more closely at the image later tonight to get you a more correct time. Observation done through gap in roving clouds! Again, the flare itself was not bright (maybe +2) but compared to the rest of the trajectory it is a short significant brightness increase again. Moreover, like yesterday and the 19th, this might actually be an observation again quite far from the central flare path. On that central flare path, flares might potentially be much brighter. Of yesterdays flare (not the one reported here!), I obtained a nice brightness curve and determined a FWHM of 0.4s, so it are very short phenomena. GOCE itself is a very fast mover, being in very LEO. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, the Netherlands. e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl Cospar 4353 (Leiden): 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL Cospar 4354 (De Wilck): 52.11685 N, 4.56016 E (WGS84), -2 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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