(meteorobs) A flash seen in a video wide field

[Francisco Ocaña]

Hello Denis,

Thank you for the information about the SGR! The position of this flash 
was RA 6h28m, Dec +18º. Björn Gimle linked it to satellite Cosmos 2254 
(thanks Björn!). A surprising bright flare, probably from its flat solar 
panels.

Sorry for the time format mistake. It is CEST (UTC+2), local time here. 
And sorry again for the quality, for sure Youtube is not the best 
option, any idea?

Thank you all!

Paco Ocaña
Madrid, Spain (UTC+2 :-)

Denis Denisenko escribió:
> 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).
>>     
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