(meteorobs) Observations -- East GA, April 28/29

[John Kuehn]

Kim, Tony

In case your interested here's a picture of the 'Meteor Priroda' satellite
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/metiroda.htm

Starry Night Pro shows that Meteor Priorada WAS sunlit from Kims 
provided Lat. and Long. (32° 49' N 82° 10' W) before and after the 23:05 
time of the flash generating a mag 5.32 ,non flash, illumination at 
those coordinates.
With an elevation of 38 degrees and an almost due west azimuth.
The sun was at a -32 degree elevation at the same time having set also 
in the west.
Starry night may be in error, nut, I generally haven't found that to be 
the case.

John Kuehn

Tony Beresford wrote:

>At 09:53 AM 1/05/05, Kim Youmans wrote:
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>>John,
>>That would fit in nicely with my observation, then.  The satellite would have been positioned between me and the sun.  As I noted, my magnitude estimate was "rough" because I didn't get a clear look at it.  It didn't seem meteoric at all.
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>>Kim Y.
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>Kim,John,
>If you check out Meteor priorada ( catalog number 12585, 1981 65A) with www.hreavens-above.com 
>you will find it wasn't sunlit at your indicated location, only leaving the shadow  about 25 degrees further along the track.
> It would also have been there closer to 23:02 EDT rather than 23:05. I assume Kim's time estimate
>was + or - 2 minutes.
>There were other satellite suspects , but none seem to me to be a likely suspect.
>I found them using Mike McCant's FINDSAT programme.
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>On seeing Kim's report my first thought was a a glint from one of the tumbling Iridium's,
>but it turns out none were in the vicinity at the time. I have seen these 2 or 3 times myself.
>Just one or sometimes two strobe length flashes, that one wonders if it was  real or something
>internal to ones visual system. They can be mag -7to -8 like iridium flares. However the short
>duration probably lowers the apparent brightness.
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>Tony B  
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