Playing back the video capture last night, I noticed a bright slow moving star, at the edge of the feild of view. When I ran a check, it was Echostar 4 ( 25331 ) ! It's still being used, so the flare wasn't caused by a slow rotational rate, ie seeing the same effect from a no longer used geo sat, that slowly rotates. It was easily mag 6 are brighter, at around 9:24 utc ( Mar 1 ) It was outside the feild of view, and slowky entered it, and got fainter. This is way past the area, where I would see a flare caused by the solar panel. So another surface on it, sent a alot of sunlight my way :) Kevin _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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