according to www.CalSKY.com, the observed satellite could have been Cosmos 2372, a Russian military photo reconaissance satellite launched in 2000. The data Oscar provided fits well to the calculated position: SSW, elevation 24.1 deg. The satellite was close to its perigee (lower than 220km). Check further details using this link: http://www.calsky.com/?cha=1&sec=0&sub=0&group=1&coorSystem=WGS84&lon=5%3A25%3A58.8&lat=36%3A10%3A58.8&timezone=7&level=3&obsbuild=1&rcha=12&rsec=7&rsub=0&user=&pw=&email=&m=&obsbuild=2&user=&pw=&Go.x=15&Go.y=16&tdt=2451952.2487 Does anybody know, if this kind of satellites (Yenisey) produces flares regularly? NOAA 8 was at that time at an elevation of only 10 deg and more than 2300 km away - and with the sun just 19 degrees beneath the satellite (elevation -9 deg). Best regards Arnold Barmettler > A colleague reported me about an observation of an Iridium-type flare in > the sky some days ago. I checked out <http://www.heavens-above.com> > looking for the satellite which produced this flare, but I could not > find any one which would fit with the observation (according with > Heavens Above, no Iridiums or another satellites passed at that time). > Does anyone know what satellite produced that flare? The observation > data are as follows: > > Location: Palmones (Cadiz, Spain) / N36.183 W5.433. > Date: February 11, 2001. > Time: 18:57 CET (17:57 GMT). > Azimuth: SSW - SW approx. > Altitude: 20 - 22 degrees. -- -------------------------------------- . ------------------------- Arnold Barmettler, Dipl. Ing. ETH + + Remote Sensing Labs RSL Tel +41 1 635 6525 + . University of Zurich Fax +41 1 635 6842 * . Winterthurerstrasse 190 barmettler@rsl.geo.unizh.ch * CH-8057 Zurich (Switzerland) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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