On Tue, 13 Aug 1996, David Bishop wrote: > I found my self at Stellafane over the last weekend, without my satellite > elements due to a hard drive crash on my machine at home. > A NOSS constillation, 3 satellites flying in formation, popped into > view. As an avid See-sater I knew exactly what it was, but due to > my hard drive being down, I didn't know which one. Would somebody please > run a pass for me? > The pass was at 10:45 pm EDT (roughly, I was awfully busy at the time) > going from about AZ 330 to about AZ 160, max el was aboput 70 degrees west. > It passed into shadow at about 40 degrees south. Someone saw a group of 3 sats last Sat. night and asked me what they were. She said they were about mag 2-3, somewhere around 11pm EDT, in the zenith going from Cygnus to Scutum. I checked for her and found NOSS 2-2 went directly overhead at 10:46 pm. You obviously saw the same pass. Seems like they were quite bright. Jay Respler -- Join us at Eurosom 2, the Satellite Observers Meeting: Oct.19/20, Belgium http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bdp/eurosom.html -- Details of how to get on the Satellite Observer Mail List, satellite elements, prediction programs and other satellite information, at the Visual Satellite Observers Home Page: http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/sat/satintro.html -- JRespler@InJersey.com or Jay.Respler@bytewise.org Satellite Tracker * Early Typewriter Collector Freehold, New Jersey