Saturday, 29 July 2006

Two classified SAR birds in one image

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(click for larger image) Under far from optimal conditions I was able to capture the trails of two classified Radar birds on one image, only...
Thursday, 27 July 2006

Lacrosse' 5 odd behaviour

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Last night Lacrosse 5 (2005-016A, #28646) performed its amazing " disappearance trick " again, just as it did in March. This time...
Monday, 17 July 2006

Clear skies continue

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Clear skies continue, so last night I have been tracking again. For the first time in several weeks a Keyhole let itself be imaged again: US...
Sunday, 16 July 2006

Lacrosse 3 and 90-046B as a stray

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Catched Kosmos 2082rk (90-046B) as a bright stray together with Lacrosse 3 (97-064A).

NLC's and satellites

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Last Friday evening saw a major display of Noctilucent Clouds here. Casper ter Kuiile sent out the first alert around 23:00 CEST through our...
Friday, 14 July 2006

A nice and predicted Lacrosse 3 flare

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Philip Masding predicted a flare of Lacrosse 3 (25017, 97-064A) for my site for this night (jul13-14), 00:22:22 UTC. I watched Lacrosse slow...
Thursday, 13 July 2006

Tracking again, and imaging nightfall in time-lapse

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After a period with clouded evening skies and/or no opportunity to track, last week saw some opportunities again. Yesterday and the day befo...
Sunday, 9 July 2006

Another Time-Lapse movie

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Another time-lapse movie which I made this afternoon. It is 1.5 hours (264 photographs) of moving cloud-scape shot between 13:10 and 14:40 C...
Saturday, 8 July 2006

Time-lapse of frontal cloud cover arriving

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I am experimenting a bit with time-lapse photography. Thanks to the digital revolution, this is quite do-able nowadays with the help of a d...
Wednesday, 5 July 2006

Impressive clouds...

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A thunderstorm developed here this morning. A few hours later, the clouds below appeared over the town, signifying the very unstable air. Th...
Sunday, 25 June 2006

Progress M-57 observed

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The Progress M-57 supply space-ship was launched from Russia in the afternoon of the 24th, heading to the ISS. Based on a predicted TLE by B...
Wednesday, 21 June 2006

USA 161 flashing, Lacrosse 4 and a stray

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A late report on the observations on the nigh of of June 19-20th. I was too tired yesterday to write an entry. Highlight of the nigh was ca...
Sunday, 18 June 2006

USA 116 keyhole flare

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Last night at 1:06:25 UTC (3:06 am local time) I observed a nice mag. -2 flare of Keyhole USA 116 (1995-066A, #23728). The onset of the flar...
Sunday, 11 June 2006

Catched a mag -1.5 Lacrosse 2 flare

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The haze in the sky was less last night than previous nights. At 21:54:48 UTC I cached Lacrosse 2 (1991-017A, #21147) flaring too about mag....
Friday, 26 May 2006

Clear skies at last...with a -2 Lacrosse 5 flare

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A clear evening again after many days with rain and hailstones. Slight haze but otherwise good, +10 C. I managed to capture IGS 1B (03-009B)...
Wednesday, 24 May 2006

The weather, weather data for Cospar 4353, and the Navy Googling for USA 129

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Weather is still bad here. Yesterday afternoon it looked like I could do some observations, as it nearly completely cleared, but in the even...
Sunday, 21 May 2006

Meeting other satellite observers

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Yesterday I travelled to Belgium to meet some other satellite observers out of the BWGS at the home of Bram Dorreman. The meeting was as wel...
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Wednesday, 10 May 2006

Yesterdays Lacrosse 3 data

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Russell Eberst reported data for Lacrosse 3 (97-064A) from last night as well, from a later pass. Our results quite agree: STA ___ XTRK ___...

Lacrosses and IGS 1B, and veil clouds

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Summer has arrived: it is very sunny the past week, and I finally can leave my jacket at home and walk about in shorts and shirt, even obser...
Thursday, 4 May 2006

USA 129 under very bad conditions

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Just when I was about to start my observing activities in late dusk yesterday evening, a thin motled cloud cover came in. Much to my surpris...