Friday night August 16 Iridium 16 flared to -1.6m at 01.22.01 UTC 094az 56 el and soon after at 01.23.18 UTC Iridium 86? flared to -4 at almost same position. After seeing 4 sats in 4 minutes that were predicted saw an unknown flare at 02.43.10 UTC id as NOAA 17 to -2 mag at gamma cygnus. The pair were USA 160 C and A approaching beta cepheus at 03.16.33 UTC followed to east to shadow. While watching Feng Yun 1 Brk #20847 starting at 02.58.30 UTC between beta and gamma draco approx 25 seconds later unknown later id as Cosmos 2360 #25406 crossed visual path with a separation of only 58 miles. Rosat dimmer than predicted and Okean O- r same mag as alpha aquila .77 mag, plus others and some meteors. Still hoping for clear skies Saturday for the close approach of asteroid 2002 NY40. Close encounters are interesting. Can some one help me with COLA program, I never have been able to get it to work.I think this program finds close encounters, not sure. Also what is the probability or is there a way to predict if another sat would cross in between the visual track of USA 160 A and C or thru one of the NOSS triplets? Lat 39.4697 Lon -79.3393 Alt 2573 ft -4 UTC ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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