Friday, 27 February 2015

OT: another update on NEA 2015 CA40

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  Our Near Earth Asteroid discovery (see earlier post ) 2015 CA40 is now past it's point of closest approach. It reached that point...
Sunday, 22 February 2015

OT: An update on Near Earth Asteroid 2015 CA40

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2015 CA 40 , the Amor Near Earth Asteroid discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky and me with the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope of MPC 461 Piszkéstetö...
Tuesday, 17 February 2015

OT: the discovery of Near Earth Asteroid 2015 CA40 (updated)

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Satellites is not the only thing I dabble with: as some long-time readers of this blog know, I am also involved in asteroid searches. Sinc...
Saturday, 14 February 2015

ATV-5 'Georges Lemaitre' and the ISS chasing each other in a partly cloudy sky

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ESA's ATV-5 'Georges Lemaitre' cargoship undocked from the ISS in the afternoon of February 14, 2015. A few hours later they mad...
Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Observing HEO objects

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In wintertime at latitude 51 degrees North, satellites in Low Earth Orbit are mostly invisible except for twilight, as all their passes are ...
Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Observing USA 259 (NROL-35)

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On December 13th, 2014, the NRO launched NROL-35 out of Vandenberg AFB into a Molniya orbit. The payload, USA 259 (2014-081A) is most lik...
Monday, 22 December 2014

Analysis of the 2014-074B Soyuz r/b re-entry on 26 Nov 2014

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In the early morning of 26 November 2014 between 03:35 and 03:40 UT, a very slow, long duration fireball was observed from the Netherland...
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Thursday, 27 November 2014

[UPDATED] Re-entry of Soyuz third stage 2014-074B from Soyuz-TMA 15M launch observed from the Netherlands and Hungaria.

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Update 23 Dec 2014: further analysis of imagery in new post (28 Nov 2014, 10:45 UT: updated with more imagery) click image to enlarg...
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Monday, 10 November 2014

Live blog from ESOC, Darmstadt: Philae (Rosetta) Landing on comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko:

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 LIVE BLOG   I (am) was on-site at ESA's European Space Operations Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt for the Philae landing on comet 67P/...

Announcing a Live Blog from ESOC during the Philae landing on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

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On Wednesday November 12, Philae, the lander of ESA's Rosetta mission , will attempt to land on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. I wil...
Saturday, 1 November 2014

Brightness variation of the USA 198 Centaur rocket stage on October 30, 2014

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Earlier today I posted this image of the USA 198 Centaur rocket (2007-060B) passing close to M33 galaxy in Triangulum: click image to ...

USA 198 r/b passing the M33 galaxy

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click image to enlarge Last Thursday evening was very clear. I tested a clip-in CLS filter on my Canon EOS 60D, employing the 2.8/180m...
Sunday, 19 October 2014

Imaging the North Korean Kwangmyŏngsŏng (KMS) 3-2 satellite

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Yesterday evening was initially clear. Using the SamYang 1.4/85 mm lens, I imaged an object that has been on my "to do"-list for a...