Wow! Got to see Group 6 and it was amazing. Low clouds all day, so I was expecting to miss our first pass. The first group (I counted 39) were just visible naked eye in holes in the clouds in the NE, so I used binoculars to see them, some in close pairs, even triplets. During the pass of 1332 and 1367 in between the main groups, it was cloudy. Then it cleared well for the last group, so I watched them and timed when they reached the Pointers (alpha and beta Ursa Major), which was close to shadow entry. 14 more there, I believe I missed 2 from the timings. So 53 out of 58 I could've seen. Magnitudes of these matched the new brighter mags on Heavens-above. Perhaps that is the early brightness, and due to some maneuvering, they are not as intrinsically bright later? No attempt to ID by COSPAR or NORAD. OBJECT PRED MAG CULMINATION (CDT) ACT MAG STARLINK-1322 3.2 21:13:39 32° NE 3 STARLINK-1324 3.2 21:13:47 32° NE 3 STARLINK-1294 3.2 21:13:47 32° NE 3 STARLINK-1320 3.1 21:13:52 32° NE 3 STARLINK-1325 3.2 21:13:53 32° NE 3 STARLINK-1333 3.2 21:13:54 32° NE 3 STARLINK-1334 3.2 21:13:56 32° NE 3 STARLINK-1261 3.1 21:14:01 32° NE 3 STARLINK-1326 3.1 21:14:02 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1323 3.1 21:14:06 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1344 3.1 21:14:06 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1336 3.1 21:14:07 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1349 3.1 21:14:07 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1331 3.1 21:14:12 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1346 3.1 21:14:16 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1354 3.1 21:14:22 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1343 3.1 21:14:23 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1328 3.1 21:14:23 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1347 3.1 21:14:32 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1335 3.1 21:14:32 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1357 3.1 21:14:34 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1327 3.1 21:14:37 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1356 3.1 21:14:38 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1345 3.1 21:14:45 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1355 3.1 21:14:47 33° NE 3 STARLINK-1340 3.1 21:14:49 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1321 3.1 21:14:55 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1358 3.1 21:14:58 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1348 3.1 21:15:01 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1363 3.1 21:15:03 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1337 3.1 21:15:09 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1342 3.1 21:15:13 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1330 3.1 21:15:15 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1376 3.1 21:15:17 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1364 3.1 21:15:20 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1361 3.1 21:15:24 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1360 3.1 21:15:25 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1366 3.1 21:15:25 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1365 3.1 21:15:29 34° NE 3 STARLINK-1329 2.2 21:33:53 71° NE 2 STARLINK-1362 2.2 21:33:57 71° NE 2 STARLINK-1373 2.2 21:34:03 72° NE 2 STARLINK-1390 2.2 21:34:08 72° NE 2 STARLINK-1371 2.2 21:34:28 73° NE 2 STARLINK-1374 2.2 21:34:42 73° NE 2 STARLINK-1339 2.2 21:34:48 74° NE 2 STARLINK-1377 2.2 21:34:55 74° NE 2 STARLINK-1353 2.2 21:35:00 74° NE 2 STARLINK-1375 2.2 21:35:06 75° NE 2 STARLINK-1350 2.2 21:35:10 75° NE 2 STARLINK-1368 2.2 21:35:21 75° NE 2 STARLINK-1352 2.2 21:35:20 75° NE 2 STARLINK-1369 2.2 21:35:27 76° NE 2 Brad Young PE Advisory Consultant ConsenSys Space Visual: Oberwerk 8 x 40 Mariner binoculars Meade ETX-125 22" f/4.2 UC Obsession COSPAR 8336 =TULSA1 +36.139208,-95.983429 660ft, 201m COSPAR 8335 =TULSA2 +35.8311 -96.1411 1083ft, 330m Remote Imaging: MPC I89 COSPAR 7777 38.165653 -2.326735 5150ft, 1650m Nerpio, Spain MPC Q62 COSPAR 7778 -31.2733 149.0644 3400ft, 1122m Siding Spring, NSW, Australia MPC H06 COSPAR 7779 32.92 -105.528 7298ft, 2225m Mayhill, New Mexico USA MPC 323 COSPAR 7782 -32.008 116.135 984ft, 300m Perth, WA, Australia _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Tue Apr 28 2020 - 00:58:09 UTC
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