Re: Starlink satellites??

From: alex via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2021 14:13:26 +0100
The speed seems faster than Starlink sats - in less than a few minutes this
object spans the sky. I re-ran Stellarium a vew days later in order to
fetch the most recent (and new) TLE but found nothing there (which is not
telling much, of course).

The odd thing is these SW pointing "gas" trails; unless I'm mistaken these
are not related to sun position as they would then point approx. to the
full Moon (top left); instead they seem to be almost perpendicular.

As Richard Cole points out, most sats are in the shadow.

Maybe these were "chaff" of flares from Air Force exercises? This seems to
be happening in the west to northwest of Halifax; there is a possibility
that this corresponds to the winds in that region.

rgds,

-alex-

On Sat, Feb 27, 2021 at 2:14 PM Michael Boschat via Seesat-l <
seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote:

> Hello:
>
>  I was looking at our all sky camera and noted 2 passes of 11 points.. on
> the first run it looks like they are venting gas as there is a tail off to
> the left of them and on the 2nd pass a fainter one.  I made some images of
> the pass ..
>
> I did not see them visually only after looking for meteors on the all sky
> cam.
>
> Begin 1st pass noted at 01:31:08 UT
>
> Begin 2nd pass noted at 02:12:53 UT
>
>  Just wondering if anything was launched and if they do vent something?
>
> I can send the images to anyone who wishes to look...
>
> I'm in Halifax Nova Scotia, Canada     N 44d 39'  W 63d 36'
>
>
> Clear skies
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