Observed Keyhole KH-12 USA 186 (05-042A, #28888) flare twice during its 20:44 UTC pass here, one short flare near the zenith and one brilliant long flare at ~50 degrees north. Both flares were captured photographically, in two seperate photo's, as well as seen. 20:43:46 +/- 2s UTC mag +1, very short (< 1s) 20:44:43 +/- 2s UTC mag -2, brilliant, very slow (>10s) The long brilliant mag. -2 flare resulted in a beautiful photograph, a cropped (and reduced for file size) version is on-line at: http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b176/marcoaliaslama/satellites/186_2109.jpg Positions will follow later. And I almost missed these one! A spade of fireball reports came in (bright one seen all over my coutry, 17:35 UTC), and in answering these I almost forgot the time. At 20:42 UTC I realised a 20:44 UTC pass was imminent, rushed out, hastily planted the tripod & camera on the courtyard and took two very lucky shots...! - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +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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