Has any of the British, French or German trackers seen Lacrosse 5 during its 19:30 UTC pass this evening (Mar 22)? I failed to see it again (with naked eye). Admittedly, conditions were not optimal (haze/thin cirrus streaks) but I feel I nevertheless should have been able to see it if it was at its usual mag. +2 brighness as seen from here. So it seems to have been clearly fainter. Moreover, 20 minutes later I had no problem seeing Lacrosse 4, even thought that pass was lower in the sky, at mag. +2. The latter made a nice short duration flare to mag. 0 at 19:50:00 UTC while crossing the sickle of Leo. I captured part of the flare on photograph, the start of the exposure more or less coinciding with peak brightness. The trail can be seen starting fat and fading out in the picture. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WS84), +0 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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