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I used Claude Code quite a bit here. Using my new MCP bridge it was able to control Sitrec, but it also just went ahead and wrote code using satellite.js to do its own propagation. But the thing that found the TLE was Grok.

https://www.satobs.org/seesat/Apr-2026/0032.html From: Kevin Fetter via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_lists.seesatmail.org> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 21:57:04 -0400 A fellow observer tipped me off, that a show would happen for me [image: ] So I aimed, and...

Very interesting results. Seems like something that needs a response. If the original MNRAS 2022 is basically noise, then that has significant implications for the downstream papers that use that set as a starting point. I think it might...

(@ThomasH ) Next candidate to check would be the Chinese launch of 18 Satellites in their Starlink-equivalant SpaceSail. That was launched from China at 1.32pm UTC on the day of the UFO sighting. A polar orbit would generally fit the observed...

I have now downloaded and processed 30% of POSS-I plates using Vasco60 pipeline. I decided to build a script to understand the differences between my and MNRAS 2022 final survivor set R. (5,399 rows in MNRAS 2022). Findings were surprising so I...

Interesting edit history on that node. https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/8349849545/history#map=18/37.114520/-115.837489 And particularly the person who created it... :p

We have a rich vocabulary, there's no reason to keep using sloppy terms, several alternatives are already in use. I quite like the D/R/I and D/R/C/I distinctions in imaging, most used now in surveilance of humans, but aerial phenomena seem to...

I have now downloaded and processed 30% of POSS-I plates using Vasco60 pipeline. I decided to build a script to understand the differences between my and MNRAS 2022 final survivor set R. (5,399 rows in MNRAS 2022). Findings were surprising so I...

The TLE for the Chinese sat group (based on observation) is in this thread. And it's not going to be 100% but it seems close enough.

(@ThomasH ) Next candidate to check would be the Chinese launch of 18 Satellites in their Starlink-equivalant SpaceSail. That was launched from China at 1.32pm UTC on the day of the UFO sighting. A polar orbit would generally fit the observed...

Well then it wasn't what people saw!! It's the wrong direction and time. It was 21:14 (UK time) looking South East and South from Denmark

https://www.satobs.org/seesat/Apr-2026/0032.html From: Kevin Fetter via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_lists.seesatmail.org> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 21:57:04 -0400 A fellow observer tipped me off, that a show would happen for me [image: ] So I aimed, and...

No, Loeb strongly implies that these FBI reports are unexplained. It's not misleading. Loeb is misleading, though. For example, he says, "So I asked them, and they said, well, we have access to everything. And maybe they are not fully aware of...

I'm starting to agree with @jarlrmai in that this might not have been Starlink G17-35. I wonder if what was seen was actually the next launch from Vandenberg, the STP-S29A mission....? Unfortunately this was a military launch so i dont think the...