Last night (3/4) I made an interesting observation of a pair of objects which I have been unable to identify. At around 22:30 - 22:35UT I noticed a bright yellow object in the S/SSW, around magnitude -2,moving towards the N/NNE. I soon noticed there was a 2nd object about 5 seconds ahead of it, much fainter at around mag 4. As the objects passed overhead going NNE both were around magnitude 4. At first I thought perhaps I'd observed the Shuttle and ET (which I've seen before) but quickly realised a) its the wrong day and b) the shuttle appears in the west from my location after launch. But that's what it looked like. I'm sure someone will know of a such pair of satellites, at least one of which is clearly capable of bright flares - can someone ID? Also can anyone tell me what Envisat is? I see it on Heaven's above main page but haven't had a chance to observe it. I assume it has something special about it to be on the main page. Also last night, observed 25017 Lacrosse 3, vivid red through the pass, and 23405 Cosmos 2297 R which was pulsing between mags 2 and 4 with a very regular 2 pulse per second cycle on this pass - this is a nice object. Regards Matt Fawcett 53.893N 0.273W _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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