Markus Mehring wrote: > I've had curious questions from people who saw it while > watching a fireworks display over Lake Ontario, and couldn't > tell what sort of fireworks "that thing" was. :) Must have > been quite a show, and considering the size of that audience > maybe it may cause the one or other "UFO" or "meteor" report > elsewhere. This must have been the Festival of Fire, a fireworks competition staged in Toronto, just off shore of Lake Ontario. Last night, China put on a display. The event started about 20 minutes prior to the satellite's decay, and the audience was facing the approximate azimuth of its culmination, about 20 to 25 deg above an unobstructed horizon, in an unusually clear sky (except perhaps for lingering smoke from the fireworks). I live in Toronto, but I missed seeing my second decay (my first was Raduga 33, last month) because I did not pay close enough attention to Dan Deak's heads-up messages. I was a bit frazzled at the time, and running behind in preparing for my observation session, so I failed to comprehend that he was talking about a decay, even though his first message was titled, "Watch for possible decay". I am glad that several subscribers did see it, and I appreciate reading their reports. Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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