Hi, Jose! According to your photo "TELKOM 3" is really candidate for these flashes -- I saw in "Heavensat" program. A few minutes ago I observed its exit from Earth's shadow during 3 minutes, but there was no any flashes. But "Telkom 3" is Indonesian communications satellite which was lost due to a launch failure (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telkom-3), it's quite big satellite (~4x2 m, see video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PJgbReqpoI), and its solar panels are opened. So, so big solar panels (this is GSS satellite) can produce such bright flares. Vitaly. ==================================================================== I hope you get because I'm having problems with my Internet Explorer, now I try Chrome. I think I've taken up to 5 pictures of flash, although it may be more or less, I do not know yet. If they were 5, 3 of these photographs showed flash of magnitude -3, and the other 2, of magnitude between 0 and 1. As the field is more or less wide, and my camera is not very sensitive, showing a flash of between 1 and 2 seconds duration as a star of magnitude +2. So I assumed a great job finding the place flashes. This morning, I've finally come up with two of them have identified nearby stars. This afternoon I found the satellite that produces the flash of that first picture. The only candidate is the Telkom 3 (38744). Since not even know if I'll be able to review other photographs in an acceptable time frame, I leave the first, if anyone is interested. if not say if that is the satellite has been producing these flashes of magnitude -3 for at least about 5 minutes, but a first impression tells me yes because I remember perfectly that moved from not far from the Big Dipper asterism to near the star Vega, and seems to coincide. Time flashes: At least between 6:19 and 06:14 (between 5:14 and 5:19 UTC UTC) 36.8389º N,2.4499W, Almería, Spain https://www.dropbox.com/sc/k1biyhdfl6d3606/AACaKfvS0PmbQjv6wbG-Scu7a -- José Luis Ruiz Gómez _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Thu Mar 03 2016 - 19:08:59 UTC
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