The Iridium I unsuccessfully planned my evening around was exactly behind a big cumulus cloud ... icing on the cake . Then , walking up the hill I just happened to see a flash of around +0.5/-0.5 mag . I could also have just managed to catch the very end of a flare also since I just happened to look up and then it was gone . Noted the time but no stars nearby as it was 30 minutes after sunset , so just drew a line between Altair & Arcturus and then dropped down 10 degrees or so toward the horizon . In Satflare , choose a 15 degree radius search (to be extra safe) and it returns 6 objects which I list below . COSMOS 1651 NORAD 15698 COSMOS 1778 NORAD 16961 SL-16 DEB NORAD 23707 SL-12 R/B(2) NORAD 25465 SL-12 R/B(2) NORAD 36118 unknown 060616 NORAD 90061 Sept 07 2012 00:20:30 UTC 43.20543 -79.26001 95M Elev Azimuth 217 Elevation 54 Mag 0 Brief flash lasting 1 to 2 seconds So , could anyone perhaps add their experience to the mystery and suggest which object might have been most probable to flare/flash , or are all 6 possible equal candidates ? Thanks in advance, gc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120906/45e19593/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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