At 23:04 18/04/2007 +0000, John wrote: >Here's hoping Marco may have seen this. > >Setting up for ISS tonight , clear sky but high haze to the south and west. >I was rather distracted by a slow moving satellite rising from the south and >transiting SSE / NNE. > >It looked to be in an orbit similar in height to Envisat and about 4th >magnitude....however it grew rapidly in brightness >and started to flare to at least mag 1 at an elevation of approx 75 degs >Whilst all this was going on I managed to fire up the camera and get a bead >on it. > >At that height and suspecting this was a small spacecraft I didnt expect to >be able to see very much , however on looking at two consecutive frames >the target has a distinctive shape to it. > >Cant find anything that matches on HA or Calsky which would be of a >suitable size....which I estimate to be similar to the >IGS birds. > >Any offers? > >Hastily prepared raw images at.... >http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/satcom_transits/unknownA.jpg > >Thanks I spotted this object despite a layer of thin high cloud. One observation of it was made. It must have reached magnitude -1 during its flare, but had gone down to +2 by the time it reached my observed point. SATOBS 2420 0704 0.211 1204 18 9900000 202522.75 113756+342841 2.0 2.0 0 S 999 Other observations to come later. best wishes Russell -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.1/765 - Release Date: 17/04/2007 17:20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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