Hi Bjorn and everyone elso who has commented on this photo, Firstly , thanks for your input......and I'm pleased on-one is simply dispelling this as a scratch or hair on the image. I was set up quite nicely on the arc as earlier in the day I had been imaging the sun , which during the spring outage period tracks the Clarke belt...in fact I also managed to image Venus in daylight. I will mark on the picture where I think the clarke belt lies , and post that later. The track of the object is so erratic , I really am at a loss as to decide what it is. The aircraft track , seems to be high altitude...about 30 ,000 ft .I am below a junction of the main airways over the NW UK. I have managed images of geosats in the past using this technique , however on this particular evening , there seemed to be a very high thin haze . The good news is that I have tied this down to around 1940 ish GMT.,................The bad news...I got the date wrong, only when checking the date stamp on Jupiter and M42 did I realise it was March 1st...sorry ! Thanks again , Best wishes , John. ****New image now posted. Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 7:11 AM Subject: Re: 88-080B tumble/flash obs; John Locker's photo > > Regarding John Locker's peculiar track, the URL of the > > page with the photo is: > > > > http://www.satcom.freeserve.co.uk/satcomunid.htm > > > > I don't have anything but a guess that maybe it might be > > a drifting balloon. I think I see a few dots that could > > pass for stationary satellites, but maybe they are just > > spots. > > > If they were really geostationary - not very bright for a very short time > while moving at an inclination - they should all have nearly the same > declination. > This is not the case here. One above Sirius and beta CMa is around -12 deg, > which is not the "Clarke belt" (named after Arthur C Clarke) > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org > http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html >
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