Hi all , I was out taking advantage of clearish skies last night attempting to image Eutelsat W1. This bird suufered a nine hour outage last week and I wanted to see if it was showing any sign of abnormal movement, or flashing.. The good news is that following a one hour observation...all looked fine. However , with camera pointing towards the south eastern arc , I was caught unawares by two brilliant Iridium displays to the SW within a few minutes of eachother.... 17 Aug 00:00:08 -5 34° 240° (WSW) 13.4 km (W) -8 Iridium 90 17 Aug 00:05:56 -4 33° 241° (WSW) 17.0 km (E) -8 Iridium 60 (Details HA ) .......which would have made an excellent image , had I had the foresight to check for Iridiums whilst watching the geos !! :O( Ah well , they were certainly spectacular naked eye . John. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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