I'm interested in transient celestial phenomena and logs them with one camera WATEC Ultimate with lens Lens: Fujinon Autoiris YV2.7X2.9LR4D-SA2L (1/3",3-8mm Varifocus F0.95). To capture the events I use the software UFOCapture. Recently was registering Eta Aquarids meteor shower when at dawn on 06/05/2011 ( the hour - local time - of the flares are in the bottom of the pictures ) the camera recorded a very bright double flare from a satellite netx of the "triangle" of Epsilon Pegasus and Alpha e Beta Aquarii. An animated gif of motion and flares can be seen here: http://multiply.com/mu/apodman/image/2/photos/3/1200x1200/2/AnimationWizard2.gif?et=jZx4YeGcbgRp3n7sQq6TOw&nmid=442826644 A movie of the sattellite movement and second flare ( unluckly the video of the first flare are damaged ): - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0byO2sUhrc Due to cloudy temple could made records only in the early morning of the day 09/05, and then again, at about the same area, the camera again recorded double flare of a satellite (which I believe to be the same day 06): http://multiply.com/mu/apodman/image/1/photos/3/1200x1200/3/AnimationWizard1.gif?et=RWM36iCsPl0OYkj%2BtZAzAA&nmid=442826644 Despite my interest in the registry and research of satellites I still very inexperienced in this area (although I have been learning from reading this list and other information sources cited here) and I could not identify the satellite (s?) that could have caused these flares so bright, so I come to ask for assistance from more experienced colleagues to help me on this task ( I have the original uncompressed movies of the both days if necessary to the analysis ). Thanks to these records I became fascinated by research and record of satellites and want to contribute to the study of these objects with new records acquired in a more planned and systematic way. My geographical coordinates are: Lat: 23°36'22.16"S Long: 46°39'27.91"W Time Zone: -3 off GMT Altitude: 765 meters Best regards Carlos Bella -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20110513/457c095e/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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