Re: Unknow object.. acn anyone assist..

From: Marco Langbroek via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 11:45:20 +0200
Op 4-9-2015 om 2:20 schreef Michael Boschat via Seesat-l:

>   This was weird object tonight, it is the small object between the lines, could not make a movie of it but it occured
>
> when I was trying the cube mount on taking 5 sec exposures of M11 at 300mm fl, 1600 ISO and F/5.6.
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> It happened at 8:59pm ADT ( 2359 UT ) time frame. A satellite did go by but I could see it.
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>
> It looked almost like an asteroid...



Hi Michael,

Your time appears to be 10 minutes off. At 23:50 UT, not 23:59 UT, the bright 
long trail matches the Chinese Space Station Tiangong 1; your short mystery 
trail matches a Chinese CZ (Long March) 3C rocket booster, 2010-024B.

(Others: Michael posted his images to his Facebook page).

- Marco


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