(meteorobs) A flash seen in a video wide field

[Denis Denisenko]

Hello folks,

Please keep on monitoring the Taurus-Auriga-Perseus region, 'cause at 
any moment you can catch a superoutburst from the new soft gamma 
repeater SGR 0501+4516!  It's coordinates are (J2000.0) 05 01 06.8 +45 
16 35, approximately 2.8 deg West of Capella and 1.5 deg North of 
epsilon Aurigae.  There are speculations that this source can be as 
bright as -12m for a few seconds during the giant flare.  It may occur 
in November or any time earlier or later.

The flash recorded by Francisco was definitely not related to this 
source.  There were also no gamma-ray bursts detected on Sep. 02.  They 
can also provide flashes brigher than 6m, as it was on Mar. 19 this year 
(GRB 080319B), so you always have a chance to catch an even brighter 
optical transient, if the bright burst occurs close enough.

This one most likely was caused by a flashing satellite.  By the way, 
Fransisco: the time on video is 06:00:05 - 06:00:07 (digits are so small 
it's hard to read them off the screen) - I think it is your local time.  
It is desirable to provide your time difference with UT so that people 
from other countries would easily convert it to the common standard (and 
to their local time, too)!

Best regards,

Denis in Moscow (UT+0400) ;-)

Francisco Ocaña wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> while recording meteors I've found many flashes that I can not identify.
> I supposed the first one to be a point meteor, but 2 per night are too
> much :-) I have seen many Iridiums and these flashes don´t resemble them
> to me. Are there more satellites able to give so brigh flashes?
>
> You can see the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SipSmahFL68 . At
> the center of the field are the Hiades. Also Pleiades are visible . Date
> and time in the screen are correct. The video was recorded in Madrid
> (3.7W, 40.4N).