Here is one of the pictures I took: https://db.tt/1vPtbPOc Objects are moving right to left. (Unfortunately the camera was setup to capture it rising in Orion in bright twilight and in my haste I forgot to change settings; hence the dark picture.) There were four distinct pieces; two bright ones slightly offset, the other two perpendicular against the direction of motion but in line with the leading bright object. My guess is, also looking at the video of the spacecraft sep, that the leading object is Dragon CRS-3, the trailing object is the last rocket stage, and the two other objects are the fairings of the solar arrays. The two brighter objects were magnitude 1 or so, the fainter objects around 4 to 5. Tracking it with binoculars showed no signs of venting or more objects. I did have the impression that the two faint objects were moving away from the two bright ones, though this could be due to viewing angle changes. Very spectacular to see this! Regards, Cees _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Fri Apr 18 2014 - 15:29:58 UTC
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