I find no Iridium, but within +-3 minutes and +-20 degrees, using Rob's SkyMap, I find 20 satellites not moving N or E. Some are very faint or slow. The most likely one is Jason 1, culminating in ENE at 80 degrees 20:14:43 UTC-4. It intersected the line Vega-Deneb close to midway, at an angle of 80 degrees, counting clockwise from Deneb. (Chart as attachment to Kevin) I have no personal experience with Jason 1, and have not searched at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html for other comments. TLE file: AllDat.tle Configuration file: KevinZ.cfg Tracking site: Franklin, MA, Kevin Z Grey Timezone: -4.0 hours Report times: Local Latitude: +42.0830° Longitude: -71.3970° Altitude: +91.0 meters Start Peak Elevation End Date Azim Elev Time Azim Elev Azim Elev VMag Cat # Satellite Name -------- ---- ---- -------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- -------------- 3/ 9/ 9 20° 62° 20:12:00 20° 62° 23° 59° 10.5 21217 91025B 3/ 9/ 9 119° 65° 20:12:00 119° 65° 160° 19° 11.4 19175 78100S 3/ 9/ 9 127° 80° 20:12:00 127° 80° 128° 40° 10.7 13609 Glonass 1 UllM 3/ 9/ 9 131° 73° 20:12:00 131° 73° 140° 56° 10.3 13904 81088G 3/ 9/ 9 136° 74° 20:12:00 136° 74° 133° 54° 11.4 15265 84095G 3/ 9/ 9 146° 58° 20:12:00 146° 58° 135° 56° 9.0 26576 USA 153 Cen Rk 3/ 9/ 9 161° 65° 20:12:00 161° 65° 153° 64° 11.1 20406 Skynet 4A Rk 3/ 9/ 9 170° 65° 20:12:00 170° 65° 171° 62° 12.0 23203 94050A 3/ 9/ 9 338° 52° 20:13:43 59° 84° 147° 22° 9.6 00410 61015EK 3/ 9/ 9 29° 48° 20:13:54 104° 77° 188° 25° 9.7 21318 75052AL 3/ 9/ 9 0° 35° 20:14:33 82° 79° 167° 26° 9.9 13456 81053FC 3/ 9/ 9 339° 48° 20:14:43 57° 80° 139° 41° 5.5 26997 Jason 1 <<<<<<< 3/ 9/ 9 20° 32° 20:15:18 105° 84° 191° 39° 10.0 04677 70025BA 3/ 9/ 9 349° 26° 20:17:11 68° 70° 103° 67° 9.0 18119 87051G 3/ 9/ 9 296° 66° 20:18:00 262° 70° 262° 70° 10.9 16103 85088A 3/ 9/ 9 333° 10° 20:18:00 274° 81° 274° 81° 9.6 00729 Secor 1B 3/ 9/ 9 331° 14° 20:18:00 282° 80° 282° 80° 7.9 26375 TSX 5 Peg Rk 3/ 9/ 9 327° 64° 20:18:00 325° 69° 325° 69° 11.8 16993 Cosmos 1783 3/ 9/ 9 340° 65° 20:18:00 346° 71° 346° 71° 11.5 12818 Cosmos 1305 3/ 9/ 9 354° 72° 20:18:00 358° 75° 358° 75° 11.2 26993 01053G ----- Original Message ----- > > Just to clarify, it was moving roughly South, and at first observation I > thought it was a star of magnitude -1.5 or so. > > -----Original Message----- > > Leaving work on Tuesday 9/9 at 8:15PM EST I saw a very > bright flare directly above (at or very close to zenith). I was located > in Franklin, MA. Can anyone identify this for me? > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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