On Sunday Mar.18 at about 21:08 UTC we were driving on the highway east of and towards Stockholm, when we saw a yellow, slightly reddish light rising slowly from about az.250. The speed was about that of an aeroplane, or a low satellite, and about magnitude -3. It got brighter as it rose, but because of traffic, and its motion towards us, we couldn't follow it higher than about 40 degrees. A satellite at that spot would be in shadow below about 700 km. An approaching airplane with such bright light is usually bluish, and gets fainter above 20 degrees or so. No candidate object found in Alan's SatEvo/dklist files or OIG reports so far, but I don't have dklist/satevo for the days immediately preceding. -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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