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

[steve banbury <banburys@sonic.net>]

Hi again Jim--I have followed up on your e-mail chasing satellites using the
program I wrote you about. I have correctly entered the lat long for Casitas de
Gila. I assume the times given are MDT (i.e: GMT minus 6 hours).  I am hung up
on one aspect of your e-mails--was the UFO centered at RA 17:24:36 min and Dec
-31:10 or near IC4628 which is
located at RA 16:57 Dec -40:18? Ten degrees is a lot of sky.

For now my best guess is Fleetsatcom 4r with the following info:
Fltsatcom 4r Sat# 12069 Launched 1980
on that date it had a RA of 17h32m52s, and a Dec of -35deg20m3.6 sec

Steve

Jim Janusz wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> I checked all of the satellites at Heavens Above without success.  The shot
> was taken from about Lat. 32:38 and Long. 108:10 and RA 17:24:36 DEC -31:10.
> Some of the sats are south but none around the time I was shooting, Friday
> the 10th at around 2:30 to 4:00.
>
> If anyone else can determine the culprit I would sure like to know.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Reeves" <reeves10@swbell.net>
> To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 8:44 PM
> Subject: Re: [APML] OK What the He** is it??
>
> > > 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
> >
> > My vote would be an Iridium flare.  What elevation above the horizon was
> > this shot?  If low on the horizon, the distance to the satellite would be
> > great and the length of the flare foreshortened, making it short on the
> film
> > like the photo shows.  The just before twilight timing would be right for
> a
> > satellite flare.
> >
> > I have a bright Iridium flare photo on my web site at
> > http://www.robertreeves.com/iridium.jpg
> > At about 30 degrees elevation, it shows a slightly longer trail than your
> > image, but then the flare on my image was so bright I started to yell at
> the
> > "idiot who turned on his car headlights" only to find the source of light
> > was in the sky.  Yours could have been a dimmer flare, and thus have
> shorter
> > fore and aft trails.
> >
> > Robert Reeves                      reeves10@swbell.net
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> >
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