2018AUG3 Provence

From: Björn Gimle via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 16:49:26 +0200
As I have commented on "So you want to track satellites" I don't know the
rate of departure of the Dragon. But at least my image is before the
deorbit burn. "Here is at last my first successfull nova.astronometry.net
submission (+ user_image + job number). 2184237 / 2236185  / 2700962.
Couldn't attach an image !"

If not the Dragon- could it be that some other module is wanted on the free
port? Or would that object be within grappling range?


söndag 5 augusti 2018 skrev Leo Barhorst <leobarhorst_at_gmail.com>:

> Hello Björn,
>
> Looking again at the article on Spaceflightnow.com I doubt it was the
> Dragon capsule.
> It made a de-orbit burn at 21:23 UT and landed 22:17 UT in the Pacific
> Ocean.
> So it must have been far more than 10 seconds preceding ISS.
>
> Leo
>
>
> 2018-08-05 7:06 GMT+02:00 Leo Barhorst <leobarhorst_at_gmail.com>:
>
>> Björn,
>>
>> The object you saw in front of ISS was the Dragon capsule.
>> It was released Aug 3 at 16:38 UT.
>>
>> Regards
>> Leo
>>
>> 2018-08-04 23:54 GMT+02:00 Björn Gimle via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
>> :
>>
>>> >
>>> > On "vacation" in Provence I had a (for me) terrific pass of ISS,
>>> ascending
>>> > from the NE to Vega near zenith around 20:56 UT. The frequent evening
>>> > thunderstorm cleared just in time to let me target Vega before ISS
>>> appeared
>>> > behind trees. Preceding by about 10 s was a (mag +2 Dragon?)  object.
>>>
>>>  But without my Windows tools I was utterly unsuccessfull in identifying
>>> and posting my image. ...
>>>
>>
>>
>

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