Tuesday, 22 June 2010

The flash period of USA 81 on June 2nd (UPDATED with February 24 results)

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In my previous post I reported on a bright stroboscopic flash display by the SIGINT satellite USA 81 (92-023A) on June 2. I now had some t...
Wednesday, 9 June 2010

USA 202 and other geostationaries, and a stroboscopic show by USA 81

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I am awfully behind with reporting on my observations. In deep twilight on June 2nd, I observed USA 81 (92-023A) briefly attaining easy nak...
Friday, 28 May 2010

USA 198 brightness behaviour: a belated 2nd report

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A belated report on a second instance of USA 198 (07-060A) flaring. On May 13th I captured another one of such instances, after first captu...
Thursday, 27 May 2010

An IGS 1B flare, and Geostationary satellites again

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Last evening 25-26 May was not the best of evenings: cirrus, and moonlight, plus this time of the year the sky darkens late and in fact rema...
Monday, 24 May 2010

Geostationary Galaxy 11 flaring to mag +2.5

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In my post of yesterday, I reported a bright geostationary satellite flaring to naked eye brightness, observed by several Dutch and Belgian ...
Sunday, 23 May 2010

Two naked eye flaring Geosynchronous sats

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Dutch meteor observer Peter van Leuteren contacted me this week as he had a strange bright stationary object on images of his photographic a...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010

Volcanic dust effects at last! Bishop's Ring on May 18th

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On May 17, a cloud of ash erupted from Iceland's now infamous Eyjafjallajökull volcano reached the North Sea area. It led to another te...
Wednesday, 12 May 2010

An unidentified object

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While reducing the remainder of my May 9-10 observations, I found what appears to be a UNID (unidentified object) on one of the images, clo...
Monday, 10 May 2010

-5 KeyHole flare! (May 9th observations, Part I)

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Yesterday evening (9 May) I observed the most spectacular Keyhole flare I have ever seen. KH-12 USA 186 (05-042A) flared brilliantly to at ...
Thursday, 29 April 2010

Yet another nice USA 186 KeyHole flare

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I am running behind with reporting on my observations again. After my last report, I observed again on the 22nd and 26th of April. Targets w...
Monday, 19 April 2010

Another Keyhole flare

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Although the skies were somewhat hazy, observations were conducted on the evenings of April 15th and 16th. Targets were the various IGS obje...
Sunday, 18 April 2010

Aircraft-less skies, but is the volcanic dust really visible?

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Following the eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano of Iceland and the large amounts of dust it ejected into the atmosphere, airtraffic ...
Wednesday, 14 April 2010

Satellite rush hour

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Over the past week I could observe on the evenings of April 8th, 11th and 12th. Several objects were captured: the KH-12 USA 186 (05-042A) ...
Tuesday, 6 April 2010

Spring objects, a Keyhole manoeuvre and a flare of the IGS 5 rocket

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After three weeks with cloudy and rainy weather, two consecutive evenings on a row finally allowed observations again on 4 and 5 April. This...
Wednesday, 17 March 2010

Early March observations and pulsing (?) brightness of the STSS Demo-1

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I am well behind on reporting on my March observations so far. I observed on the evenings of 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9 and 16 March. Observed objects...
Friday, 5 March 2010

The Lacrosse 5 (05-016A) "disappearance trick": comparison of different occasions

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Note added 13-11-2011:   visitors coming here through the link on Spaceweather.com , please read this story here first (click link) as the...
Monday, 22 February 2010

Chasing satellites through clouds and unusual brightness behaviour of the STSS Demo 2

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The evening of Saturday-Sunday 20-21 February saw a very dynamic weather situation. Fields of clouds came and went very rapidly: the sky cou...