Shooting star?

Passero wrote:


Can i look if there was a satelite at that position at the time i took the
picture?

Try http://www.heavens-above.com/.

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http://www.passero.be/astro/orion.jpg the original one
http://www.passero.be/astro/orionb.jpg the other one.


Iridium Flare?

Gareth Slee

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http://www.passero.be/astro/orion.jpg the original one
http://www.passero.be/astro/orionb.jpg the other one.


Iridium Flare?


What's that?

Gareth Slee

"Passero" wrote in message news:EPNQb.4531

What's that?

See http://satobs.org/iridium.html

Gareth Slee

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"Passero" wrote in message news:EPNQb.4531

What's that?

See http://satobs.org/iridium.html


how can it be an irridium flare when such a flare has a megnitude of -8 and
on the original photo i don't see the "flare" but when i change the levels
of the photo so that i see things with a higher magnitude it gets visible...
So the thing i saw was something with a high magnitude and a irridium flaire
has a very low magnitude

Gareth Slee

"it just kept streaking downward andeventually appeared to break into
several pieces before going behind the tree line."

It was, probably, a bolide. A bolide is a bright meteor that breaks up
as it enters the atmosphere.

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 09:34:23 GMT, Passero wrote:

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Looks to me like a satellite trail.


Can i look if there was a satelite at that position at the time i took the
picture?

Try http://www.heavens-above.com/

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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 01:34:09 GMT, Chris L Peterson wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 00:44:32 GMT, "Mike Ruskai"
wrote:

Looks to me like a satellite trail.

It's certainly not a meteor.

Why do you say that? I've got dozens of images with meteors that look just like
that.

I've never seen a meteor trace out a line of uniform brightness and
thickness on any exposure.


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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:21:01 GMT, "Mike Ruskai"
wrote:

I've never seen a meteor trace out a line of uniform brightness and
thickness on any exposure.

I've seen such meteors quite often. As long as the particle is too small to
fragment, the path is often of uniform brightness. I have some film images made
during Leonid showers showing two or three bright meteors with varying
brightness, and several more very dim ones that look like scratches on the film,
very uniform.

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What's that?

See http://satobs.org/iridium.html


how can it be an irridium flare when such a flare has a megnitude of -8
and
on the original photo i don't see the "flare" but when i change the levels
of the photo so that i see things with a higher magnitude it gets
visible...
So the thing i saw was something with a high magnitude and a irridium
flaire
has a very low magnitude

Gareth Slee

The maximum magnitude of an Iridium flare is -8, but unless you are in
exactly the right position you won't get a mag -8 flare. Look at
www.heavens-above.com and you'll see that for a given time period and
lat/long. you will have flares between -1 and -8.