Hi: Wow! that's a lot of satellites!! I can only narrow the RA/Dec down to this: Aug.8/9,2010 - 0125 UT RA= 21h 16m +/- 10m Dec= -6d 19' +/- 2d My lat: N 44d 39' My Long: W 63d 36' Place: Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada As I said it "just" appeared - I was looking for Perseids and happened to see the object and I thought it was a nova as there was NO motion detected with the eye, it faded very slowly after about a minute. In my 12x50 binoculars it looked like a blue star but then after a few seconds I saw very slow motion of it against background stars.To me I would say it was a very high orbit. I saw other satellites that went slow,medium, and varied in brightness, they were unmistakable. If I had taken a photo of it there would have been no trailing....but I didn't. I saw an object like this on July 30-31,2008 at 0210 UT between Theta Aquila and Alpha Capricornii which I thought was a nova so it has to be a similar type satellite. I took an image of that one though. Clear skies ---------- Michael Boschat Halifax Center - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Astronomy page: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa063 _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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