Yesterday, June 30th, 2014 I saw a very bright, irregular fast moving sun-synchronous satellite moving south-north. Its location under Deneb, alpha Cygni. Its time 221520. To night , July 1st, 2014, I was waiting around the same time plus and minus 10 minutes.. And a similar object appeared close to the expected place. I tried to track it and was able to fix one point: As I did not use ObsReduce, but Guide 8 in stead I cannot add accuracy values for place and time. In IOD-format: 27698 03 009A 4160 G 20140701221948240 27 15 1928300+500459 00 I+015 05 It had a magnitude -4 flare after the observation. By sending this I hope other observers are helped to find this decaying object and might be able to track it more accurate. I am aware of the fact that this satellite has a low orbit and leaves earth shadow at a rather northern latitude. Best regards and happy hunting. For IOD-format see: http://www.satobs.org/position/IODformat.html Bram Dorreman using 7x50 binoculars Site 4160: 51.27931 N, 5.47683 E, 35 m (WGS84) _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Tue Jul 01 2014 - 18:09:18 UTC
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