Hi, regarding these flares - I've got a little series of one to about mag -6 on my website (www.analemma.de in the CCD Imaging section). It was taken at the prime focus of my Meade ETX, while I was imaging Mir. I also got a picture of a strange little dot flying to the side of Mir, also on my web site. Any ideas what it could be? It's definitely real, because it appeared on 3 images, all separated by about 1 second each.... Ulrich > At 23:27.0, it flared to an approximate magnitude of -5 > (noticeably brighter > than Venus' -4.5) and at 23:27.5, when just 21 degs above the ENE, it was > still at about -3-1/2 (brighter than Jupiter's -2.2 but fainter > than Venus). ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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