Afternoon all I havent written about this as Ive been swamped re it in this part of the world with people and the press telephoning - where it was very widely observed and photographed. It was indeed related to the Falcon 9 launch and most of the reports clustered around about 1704 UT shortly before the satellites/rocket entered earths shadow north of Madacasgar. I had posted a long story on my Facebook page early this morning and quite a few photographs have since appeared on it as well as in another FACEBOOK group called RSG which also received a large number of reports. A full story of the event will probably appear in several South African newspapers. I did not see it - I was asleep in front of the TV and was woken up by telephone calls - anyway it was too low in Cape Town so I wouldnt have seen it anyway and it was quite strong twilight. It was photographed at Sutherland in twilight. Anyway I am mentally exhausted from it so if anybody wants more then they will have to go to my FACEBOOK page where I posted various maps from HEAVENSAT etc...... The burn or venting occurred at the apogee of the orbit if the data on SPACETRACK is correct - around altitude 1605 kms. Cheers Greg _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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