Hi Ed, On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Ed Cannon via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote: > This is just to ask for clarification on what part of > the event I saw. At 4:15 UTC it was about twice the > size of the full Moon and generally circular. This seems to match the images posted on spaceweather gallery by Bryan Tobias: http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=109771&PHPSESSID=j4j2cb39b0i23v74cmvs52uth3 The star field has been identified as Taurus in the center, Gemini to the top and Orion to the left. Aldebaran is at the bottom center. This places these images also around 04:15UTC. As the payloads were separated on time the cloud you saw must've been ejected around or prior to the separation sequence. This post on the NASA spaceflight forum suggests that this cloud may have been from the Centaur spin up. http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=36399.msg1345687#msg1345687 Interestingly the video three posts later in that thread shows the Centaur de-spinning after separation of the 4th MMS. Regards, Cees _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Fri Mar 13 2015 - 13:38:06 UTC
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