At 07:13 AM 23/02/2012, Thomas Ashcraft wrote: >Thank you Carlos and Björn for looking. > >Regarding "geostationary" : I'm not sure but I think the object moves >discernibly from NNE to SSW over the course of 8 seconds. Would a >geostationary sat move noticeably? > >Thomas assumming you are not tracking the answer is no. Even the many abandoned near geo satellites wouldn't move a more than one pixel in 8 seconds. Its also a long way off the declination for a geostationary satellite, which is about -5.5 degrees for your latitude. A re-entry seems to be disallowed because of the short time interval. Its also not an iridium flare. Heavens above doesn't show satellites when it doesn't know how bright they are. can you give a calibrated position in either equatorial or topocentric figures and myself and others can run a check on all available TLEs( Space-trak + Classfd.zip) Tony Beresford _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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