Hi: During my Perseid observing last night I noticed a bright short flash and later a "nova" like object - both in Cassiopeia. Are there very high orbit iridium satellites that can do this? I managed to get images of them both. I've seen these before but this is first time I caught them on camera. Just curious. The fast ones you could only count "one thous...." and that is it, less that 1/2 second flash. The other just looked like a nova starting and slowly faded. Both were in Cassiopeia. the slow one went from 03:05:38 UT to 03:05:49 UT. The bright short one at 02:40:34 UT just to right of Alpha-Beta Cassiopeia. Me: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Lat: N44d 39' W63d 36' Clear skies ---------- Michael Boschat Halifax Center - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Astronomy page: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa063 _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Thu Aug 10 2017 - 07:07:56 UTC
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