Hi all, KH USA 186 (05-042A, 28888) just made a beautiful slow flare here high in the northwest, lasting some tens of seconds and reaching at least mag. -2. I first saw it around the actual brigthness peak (21:13:06 +/- 3s UTC): when I looked up from triggering the camera it already was very bright, then started to fade while the camera opened. This was the first time I saw it give off such a long flare, instead of the very short glints I had seen it give off so far. Image can be seen here (crop, reduced resolution): http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/marcoaliaslama/satellites/186_1009.jpg Will report positions later, along with positions for USA 129. - Marco :-) ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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