Obs SatTrackCam Leiden (Cospar 4352), 3 Sept 2005: 26473 00 047A 4352 P 20050903194110800 17 75 2100523+150410 56 I+025 10 26473 00 047A 4352 P 20050903194121500 17 75 2115468+179810 56 I+015 10 Method: Canon Digital Ixus 400 + ASTRORECORD astrometric software. Camera at manual mode, "10 second" (= 10.7 second) exposure, wide field f2.8/7.41 mm. What these numbers mean: http://www.satellite.eu.org/position/IODformat.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Poor, hazy conditions. First point might be off as start of trail is faint. Second point should be reliable, is fat and bright on the image. Lacrosse 4 was increasing in brightness during the exposure and gave a short Iridium-like flare of about magnitude +0.5 some ~10 seconds after the end of the exposure. The onset of this flare is just captured in the image, the end of the trail suddenly becomes bright and fat. Saw a bright negative magnitude (-1 to -2) sat low in the sky descending to the northeast horizon some 10-15 minutes earlier while checking the sky quality. - Marco :-) ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4352 Leiden, the Netherlands, 52.15894 N, 4.48883 E (WGS84), +5 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com e-mail: meteorites@dmsweb.org ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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