Hi George & List : Well , long story (see the recent thread Re: Complicated Question about sky geometry) but finally got back out after skies cleared , found the nearest group of stars , then back into SatFlare with a much smaller search radius and SF spit out only 2 sats (previously mentioned) - COSMOS 1651 NORAD 15698 COSMOS 1778 NORAD 16961 You initially suggested C 1651 as the most likely and it certainly does appear to be the correct choice . C 1778 was on a very similiar track but passed C 1651's position around 11 minutes earlier , which I think put it too far away (higher in elevation by 7 degrees) from the sector I narrowed it down to . Also should mention that Satflare had unknown 060616 (NORAD 90061) listed as "Int. Desc. = 06667A" which I believe means it's initial description (or similar) was 06667A , so I hope that clears up the confusion on that object . I should also mention that Heavens Above did not show C 1651 as passing over that evening and in fact has no listing of it in it's sat database for some reason , unless I'm mistaken , but I tried to find it there and had no luck at all . Cheers & thanks to you and Bjorn for your help in narrowing this down so that an FPAS can be reported for this event . http://www.studiodynamics.net/moon/satflaregrab.gif http://www.studiodynamics.net/moon/satflaregrab.gif cheers, gc PS : Early morning & Venus/Moon/Jupiter lined up perfectly , and 2 mornings in row , thanks to the moon rising and drifting on that same line between Venus & Jup . Pretty cool & must be fairly rare . >COSMOS 1651 NORAD 15698 flashes to mag 3 >COSMOS 1778 NORAD 16961 flashes to mag 9 >SL-16 DEB NORAD 23707 nothing >SL-12 R/B(2) NORAD 25465 mag 7.5 >SL-12 R/B(2) NORAD 36118 mag 8 >unknown 060616 NORAD 90061 no flashes > Great - you know how to use satflare now. Next tool up: seesat archives. > Search for the norad numbers above at the bottom of this page: > http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > If there are lots of results, then add "ppas" or "flash" to the search to > limit results. > The first 1 above looks most likely. Lots of discussion of this one > "flashing". Once to mag 3 and a few times to mag 4. The 3rd item has never > been reported seen on this list. It's probably tiny. The next two have > been observed but I don't see as many observations as the first 2 and some > random obs of each was mag 7.5 and mag 8. > The last item comes up alot but I'm not sure if it's the same object as > mentioned in seesat. In seesat it also has the name 06667A wheras you seem > to have 060616. So I'm thinking these are different objects maybe? Or I'm > just clueless. > - George Roberts -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120911/94ef5d47/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Sep 11 2012 - 04:36:17 UTC
