Hi all, This is an interesting observation report. Any ideas? Some kind of out-gasing? Chris Peat From: Serge Florens [mailto:albireo@intnet.mu] Sent: 29 September 2013 21:19 To: Chris.Peat@heavens-above.com Cc: albireo@intnet.mu Subject: Satellite with a bright halo. Hello I am a physics teacher and tonight saw something quite unusual in the sky above Mauritius (57.4808 degrees East, 20.2983 degrees South). Around 20h 47 I got a phone call to check the sky. In the sky at about 60-70 degrees elevation above the West (it actually went from the tail of the Scorpion more or less along the Milky Way) I saw a point of light moving as an artificial satellite would (from South to North) but it was surrounded by a bright halo about five degrees in diameter. The sky was clear and there was no halo around any star. The halo reminded me of photos of comet Holmes. Have you received reports of such sightings? I wonder what kind of satellite this was. Could you please help identify the object? Kind Regards, Serge Florens. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20130930/cc55149a/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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