Hey gang, I've only been at this for a month now, strictly a newbie, but I have *got* to tell you about last night! I live on the corner of 34.3850N and 118.5300W, it's the old Anderson place, you can't miss it. It was very clear and dark last night and in an hour I saw 13 satellites and I have definately identified a geostationary flasher at 80 degrees azimuth and about 65 degrees elevation. It flashes about every 5 seconds. I'm using 10x50 binoculars and am not sky savvy enough to identify more than 3 or 4 constellations. But that's not the best part, last night on three occaisions I had 2 satellites at once in my binocs! Two of these occaisions the satellites were moving in the same direction and on the third occaision I was tracking one south and another entered my field of view from the west. Then one time I was watching a passenger jet cross the night sky and a satellite came into view so I then followed the satellite. I was really excited about seeing miltiple targets at once. And to witness this three times in one night was really neat! But is this a common event? How often have any of you seen 2 satellites at once? Anybody seen 3 at once? Thanks, Richard ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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