Sunday, 27 August 2006

Short observing session

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After many days with heavy rainshowers, it cleared yesterday evening. I did a short observation run: cut short alas by the return of clouds ...
Thursday, 24 August 2006

20% off on all Weapons of Mass Destruction!!!!

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Okay, after Hezbollah visited my website yesterday , they seemed to have given a call to their benefactors to check things out. Because tod...
Wednesday, 23 August 2006

Feind hort mit!

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Uuhmmm, yeah....: if you suddenly see this kind of IP with this kind of search engine keywords appear in the webstats of your satelite tra...
Saturday, 12 August 2006

Slow Lacrosse 5 flare (belated post)

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Due to circumstances, a quite belated report. I observed a beautifull pass of Lacrosse 5 (2005-016A, #28646) one week ago, August 6-7. It wa...
Thursday, 3 August 2006

Difficult Lacrosse 5 flare (?) observation

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Tried to observe the 01:11:48 UTC predicted Lacrosse 5 (2005-016A, #28646) flare last night predicted for my location by Phillip Masding. Ob...
Tuesday, 1 August 2006

Lacrosse 5: now you see it, now you don't....

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Phillip Masding had predicted a possible Lacrosse 5 (2005-016A) flare for me for last night at 21:50:22 UTC: Flare Results for Flight Mod...
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....