UNKNOWN OBJECT
Alphonse Pouplier (pouplia@interpac.interpac.be)
Thu, 13 Jul 1995 17:54:34 +0200 (MET DST)
On june 22 1995, I was in PUIMICHEL and preparing my recordings
for the next rendezvous. After having recorded a passage of MIR,
I recorded a pass of 22803. When playing the cassette the
FLASHES (of several seconds) are easily chronometrables.
Gerhart KLAUS made 4 photographs with his SCHMIDT 20/22/30 cm
and one with his Pentax 6x7 cm 2.4/105 mm.
He tracked on the stars. He cutted the track of MIR by means of
obturations of 1 sec every sec (with his "swiss precision"!
Gerhart is a well known Swiss astrophotographer).
I just received the wonderfull 23x30 cm photographs he sent me.
But now he ask me for another problem:
On april 10 1991, he had made 2 photographs at about 10 min.
of interval. On each one, one can see a line made by "a moving
object". What could it be?
Here are the coordinates of that object:
UT RA 1950 DEC 1950
A 2005 09h21.8m +24d18m
B 2010 09h24.5m +24d23m
C 2014 09h26.7m +24d27m
D 2019 09h29.4m +24d31m
One can deduct that the speed (on the stars) is 6.8 deg./hour
Coul it be a satellite at 65,180 Km height ?
If necessary, I can ask him for the coordinates of his obs.place.
Alphonse POUPLIER pouplia@interpac.be