{"id":471,"date":"2025-08-16T12:04:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/?page_id=471"},"modified":"2025-08-16T13:12:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T16:12:31","slug":"re-entry-burn-up","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/re-entry-burn-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Entry Burn-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On the evening of August 12, 2025, my <a href=\"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/auroracam\/videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Allsky camera<\/a> (setup to capture the Aurora at our cabin) caught something very unusual. The 4 images below, timestamped by the camera, are of a fairly slow moving object. Each exposure is 1 minute long, starting at just a point and progressively getting larger &amp; brighter in each shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some basic calculations says it was travelling between 1,500 &amp; 2,000 Kph, emanated out of Constellation Virgo and travelled in a generally NE direction, right under the Big Dipper (Ursa Major). A bit of digging found it was a piece of Space Junk formerly known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n2yo.com\/satellite\/?s=50188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Starlink-3275, NORAD Launch ID 50188<\/a>. Launched on Dec. 18, 2021 from AFWTR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: Image timestamps are for time zone AST. Add 3 hours to get UTC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup001-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup001-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup001-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup001.jpg 1217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">First image captured<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup002-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-475\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup002-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup002-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup002-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup002.jpg 1217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Second Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup003-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup003-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup003-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup003-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup003.jpg 1217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Third Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup004-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup004-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup004-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup004-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Burnup004.jpg 1217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Forth Image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of August 12, 2025, my Allsky camera (setup to capture the Aurora at our cabin) caught something very unusual. The 4 images below, timestamped by the camera, are of a fairly slow moving object. Each exposure is 1 minute long, starting at just a point and progressively getting larger &amp; brighter in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-471","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vo2go.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}