It is impossible to see from a 3 second flash if it is geostationary or not. The term flare is usually reserved for more or less non-rotating satellites (earth-, sun- or star-stabilized) and even a perfectly flat surface in geostationary orbit would flare for at least two minutes. IMHO Björn 2012/2/22 Carlos Bella <carlos.apodman@gmail.com> > Exactly like my Geostationary flare, only your register are a bit more > longer: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTPeiKfAow > > Certainly your movie are a flare of a geostationary, remains identify the > sat. > > > Regards > Carlos Bella > > 2012/2/22 Thomas Ashcraft <ashcraft@heliotown.com> > > > My all-sky camera captured an eight second long flash over north central > > New Mexico this morning at Feb 22, 2012, 3:15:34 am MST ( 1015:34 UTC). > > I checked Heavens-Above for possible sats but their listings start at 4 > > am local time or so. > > > > I am wondering if this might be a re-entry? > > > > I made a rough movie document and overlaid a general sky map onto the > > sky field. Please know that the map overlay is general and not an > > absolute precise fit to my camera field of view. ( Map from > > Heavens-Above.com Thank you. ) > > > > http://www.heliotown.com/unidFeb222012_101534ut_Ashcraft.mp4 ( 1 MB ) > > > > Thank you in advance for any identification help. > > > > Thomas Ashcraft > > 35.50 N , -105.89 W > > New Mexico > > _______________________________________________ > > Seesat-l mailing list > > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120222/95cf8cf7/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > -- ---------------------------------------- Björn Gimle, COSPAR 5919 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m Phone: +46 (0)8 571 43 312 Mobile: +46 (0) 704 385 486 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120222/b9925109/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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