RE: [APML] OK What the He** is it??

[Glenn Ray <Glenn.Ray@aspentech.com>]

Jim,

I went to www.heavens-above.com, entered coordinates for Tierra del Sol
(just guessing, since you've shot photos from there before), and looked for
candidate satellites (including Starshine, which has flashes like this).
The only one even close to this region of the sky and time is the Cosmos
1354 rocket, which had a predicted pass from 0409-0420 PDT.  It left the
earth's shadow between Sagittarius and Scorpius, so you might have caught a
glint of it somehow. 

Of course, if you weren't near that site, you might want to go to Heaven's
Above yourself and play with it a bit.  (Note:  you can override the
magnitude limits a bit in the URL header).

Sure looked like a Starshine flash to me, but almost any satellite with a
bright, flat panel could make that kind of flash.  Wonder what the
photographic magnitude works out to be?

Glenn Ray
Cypress, Texas


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Janusz [mailto:jjanusz@dc.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 1:57 PM
To: astro-photo@seds.org
Subject: [APML] OK What the He** is it??


 Hi Ken and Volker and everyone.

 Yes I did notice the faint trail.  The shot was from about 2:30 to 4:00 AM
 on Friday the 10th of May.  Astronomical twilight was starting around 4:45.
 Do you think the sun may have glinted off a satellite?  An irridium flare
 would have a longer bright trail, right?

 This low in the south what type of satellite should I look for?

 Thanks all.

 Jim

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenneth Webb (USF)" <kwebb1@scooby.lklnd.usf.edu>
> To: "Jim Janusz" <jjanusz@dc.rr.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 11:22 AM
> Subject: Re: [APML] OK What the He** is it??
>
>
> > Jim
> > I looks like a flash off a satellite. If you look along the 10 o'clock
to
> > 4 o'clock axis there appears to be a faint trail. If you noted the time
> > and location of the shot, you maybe able to figure out which sat (if
that
> > is what is is) caused it.
> > Ken
> >
> > http://www.lklnd/usf.edu/~kwebb1
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 20 May 2002, Jim Janusz wrote:
> >
> > > So has Saturn moved into southern Scorpius?  Can anyone guess what
> caused
> > > the strange object / star in this shot?  It's a section of an image of
> > > IC4628.  The image has some field rotation at 90 minutes but what the
> heck
> > > is it?
> > >
> > > http://www.astroimager.net/Whatit-1.jpg
> > >
> > > Jim
> > >
> > > Astronomy  Web Page at:
> > > http://www.astroimager.net/
> > >
> > >
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