Hi Joe, This is most likely related to the Chinese launch to geostationary earlier today. Do you have the time the image was taken, the general direction and camera/lens properties? Regards, Cees On Wednesday, December 31, 2014, Skywayinc--- via Seesat-l < seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote: > Bill Bogardus of the Amateur Observers' Society of New York posted this > message (below) on the club's Internet mailing list a short while ago. > Bill > is visiting Chile in the vicinity of La Serena and the Cerro Tololo > Inter-American Observatory. Tonight Bill apparently caught sight of a > fuel dump. > I'm wondering if anyone on the list might know where this may have > emanated from . . . I've included a link from one of Bill's images. > > -- joe rao > > The surprises just don't end. This night the hosts had two paid > astronomers over to our cabanas to show the skies to a family that had > arrived this > day. I was invited to observe the session even though it was in Spanish > but found it interesting to see what they were showing. Someone pointed > out > a strange sight saying essentially "what's that". Lucky for me I'd seen > it > before. It was a spent rocket booster de-gassing in low orbit. I'm not > sure where it must have launched from to be over Chile but managed to > grab a > camera and take a few shots. > > See: http://tinyurl.com/ohdssvp > > wbogardu_at_optonline.net <javascript:;> > _______________________________________________ > 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 Wed Dec 31 2014 - 02:22:00 UTC
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