Satellite observations 16.-17.8.2014

During last night (16.-17.8.2014) I was doing some satellite spotting in Turku, Finland. Below you can see a collection of the most interesting observations from last night. Nights are getting darker and darker also her up north. Last night last quarter of Moon was above horizon all night, but still NELM was about 5 and …

Satellite mystery solved!

Couple of days ago I wrote a post about mysterious satellite triplet, that I observed while trying to cathc a perseid meteors with my camera. I posted a mail about this satellite to the Seesat -e-mail list, and with the help of Leo Barhorst, Cees Bassa and Björn Gimle I was able to identify this! …

Mystery satellite triplet during Perseid night

I observed this mysterious satellite triplet in the night between 12th and 13th of August 2014 @ 21:26 UT in Turku, Finland, while trying to observe Perseid meteor shower. These satellites were moving upwards in the constellation of Aquila. First two of them were flaring and then fading, then the third one flared and faded …

Twinkle, twinkle, little Iridium satellite

...how I wonder what you are! So, here it is, my first ever photograph of an Iridium satellite flare! I catched this last night 5.-6. of August 2014 @ 22:21 UT in Turku, Finland. The brightness of the flare was about -8 magnitudes according to Heavens Above site. And I'm not arguing with HA, so …

It’s not a bird, it’s not an airplane, it’s a double NOSS!

I observed this bright double satellite flare when observing noctilucent clouds in the night between 28th and 29th of July 2014 @ 22:51UT. I only had a Samyang 8mm fish-eye lens attached to my camera, but luckily I was at least able to photograph this phenomena! The satellites were as bright as Vega when I …