We found ourselves in the mountains above Los Angeles on Sunday night 4/23. For people in the area, that was on the Angeles Crest Highway route 2, a few miles W of Chilao Visitor Center. This is a good time to go, the route is still closed to Wrightwood by winter storm damage, so that takes a lot of the through traffic away. It's open for a few miles beyond the ski centers. A fair bit of light pollution, limiting mag from 4.5 to 2 depending on the part of the sky. I didn't bring any printed star charts, so we just opened the sunroof (too cold & windy to stand outside) & driver's window, parked the car facing E & saw what we could spot at 1-power from 20:20-21:20 PDT. That's a band from N to S, slightly E of the zenith. ID'd stuff against mccants.tle. Saw: 25887 Gbstr 24 Del r 23019 Koronas 1 brightish at mag 3 25064 ETS-7 22 s late against: ETS-7 4.0 3.0 0.0 5.5 v 13 1 25064U 97074B 00115.06623799 +.00017330 +00000-0 +95816-3 0 04118 2 25064 034.9723 035.4356 0003241 346.1925 013.8975 15.13054913132767 17131 SPOT 1 r AA Flare to mag 3 near alpha CVn 16647 Cosmos 1736 Perhaps mag 3 instead of predicted mag 5.3 01822 OV2-1/LCS2 DM Our oldest object, or at least lowest number! 23954 GPS 2-26 r1 See that a lot these days. As it decays, it enters shadow noticeably earlier than a few weeks ago 05143 Meteor 1-8 r 25725 MStar 3 Cent r See that a lot these days 23659 Sich 1 r An interesting hour's viewing, catching about 20% of the passes predicted using a 5.5 mag limit. Of course we had a restricted view. Best, Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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