Saturday, 30 September 2006

Lacrosse 3 & Lacrosse 5rk cruising up together

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This evening I caught Lacrosse 3 (97-064A, #25017) and Lacrosse 5rk (05-016B, #28647), the rocket stage of the Lacrosse 5 launch, cruising...
Monday, 25 September 2006

Illustrative diagrams

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These two diagrams I prepared this weekend from recent observational data by stations Cospar 710, 2420 and me (4353) on KH-12 USA 186 (05-...
Sunday, 24 September 2006

Lacrosse 2

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A second front passed yesterday, bringing a few raindrops in the morning. Around dusk it cleared for a while, but the sky remained very ha...
Friday, 22 September 2006

USA 186 Flare Galore

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Yesterday evening at the 20:44 UTC pass I was treated to two nice flares by KH-12 Keyhole USA 186 (2005-042A, #28888). Both flares happened...
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Monday, 11 September 2006

Flare update and Cospar 4353 on Google Earth

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Pierre observed in the same flarepath of USA 186 (05-042A) yesterday evening as the one that caused the flare I observed. From western Franc...

USA 186 flare, and is it manoeuvring?

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KH-12 type Keyhole optical imaging reconnaisance sat USA 186 (05-042A, #28888) brightly flared to mag. -2 in the northwest at 21:13:06 ± 3s...
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...