(meteorobs) Interesting capture- still to be identified

[bob71741]

Thomas - My guess is that it is a point meteor that you captured. I take it that you did not get any forward scatter?
A nova or supernova event of that initial brightness would still brightly illuminate the region for weeks/months. 

Do you not have the capability to plot a light curve (brightness vs. time)of this event and compare it to a light curve of an Iridium flare. I'm assuming that they have much different signatures.

Bob

--- In meteorobs at yahoogroups.com, Thomas Ashcraft <ashcraft at ...> wrote:
>
> November 8, 2009  0043:20 UT  ( Nov 7, 2009   1743:20 MST)
> 
> Last evening I captured what I assumed was a satellite flash, possibly 
> an Iridium flare, but I could not find any listed sats that were in the 
> vicinity at the moment of the flash. I asked about unlisted sats on the 
> satellite observer list but no sats were predicted at that time.
> 
> Hence, I think the capture might be a point source meteor.  But....... 
> now I am wondering if this flash could have been from further out in 
> space...like a nova or other form of burster of some sort? But I don't 
> know where to check on nova-like events.
> 
> In any case, I posted the image and movies in both .mp4 and .wmv windows 
> formats.
> 
> http://www.heliotown.com/Unidentified_Satellite.html
> 
> Any possible clues to help identify this event are welcome.
> 
> I am thanking you in advance.
> 
> Thomas Ashcraft
> New Mexico
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