First thing I typically look for with a bright, obvious UNID is an object space-track has lost track of for at least a handful of days. A lot of times I have luck with highly eccentric rocket bodies that are decaying pretty quickly. Looking now at 45808, the rocket body from the last Beidou launch with a perigee well below 200km that hasn't had a TLE update in nearly 12 days. The apogee is on the side of the Earth away from the Sun, so it'd be visible at night, but slow-moving. Any info on how quickly it was moving or generally what part of the sky it was in? Thanks, Michael ________________________________ From: Seesat-l <seesat-l-bounces+thomp376=purdue.edu_at_satobs.org> on behalf of Jonathan McDowell via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2020 1:15 AM To: seesat-l_at_satobs.org <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> Subject: Bright unid flasher I've had a number of people (mostly experienced observers) contact me over the past two weeks reporting a very bright flaring satellite not matched by obvious searches on heavens-above: Jason Major: 0335 UTC Jul 14, Rhode Island Casey Crandall: 1015 UTC Jul 9, Ogden, UT Mark Marley: 1145 UTC Jul 9, San Francisco area Ron Dantowitz: 0536 UTC Jul 10, Brookline, MA Seems plausible the reports are related. Just random flaring Starlinks or something else? Any ideas? Some details attached. - Jonathan _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Tue Jul 14 2020 - 01:42:26 UTC
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