Spotted CZ-4C DEB - NORAD 36417 flaring last night (used Satflare to easily nail it) , around mag +2.5 to +3.5 perhaps , and will do an FPAS soon , but was curious about it flaring 1 minute before it came out of shadow (HA & FS both confirm inside shadow) . Is this common ? If it wasn't sunlight bouncing off could it have been Venus or Jupiter or Capella etc or even the moon (flare lasted ~3 seconds) ? Also , did a search of Seesat's archives (thanks George) and only 1 hit from 53 weeks ago by Kevin Fetter http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2010/0198.html , although Satflares newly expanded DB showed this report by Brad Young early this year also . http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jan-2012/0228.html Also of interest was HA having 19 different NORADS for that one sat name . I'm guessing they all originated from one particular vehicle ? Thanks in Advance for any info , gc -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120911/8d4e9d48/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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