Good evening.... what a FANTASTIC sight!!!!! Probably the most beautiful I have ever seen as OTV3 passed over followed by a brighter object which was probably the second stage, but what made it even more beautiful was the extremely bright fan ahead of it-probably caused by hydrogen venting from the second stage. I got numerous photographs as well as some video which I will be posting on my FACEBOOK page probably tomorrow. When I first saw the object come into the field of view I thought it was the landing lights of an aircraft- as I could hear one buzzing around - so I let it pass through the field of view. I then waited a few seconds and thought I had better set on the culmination position and sure enough again had the plume followed by a satellite followed by a brighter one. I followed the train until it passed behind some buildings at 9 degrees elevation as the plume continued to get fainter and fainter. What a fantastic sight and congrats to Ted - your predictions were SPOT ON!!! Cheers - will now go and observe a few other much less exciting satellites! Greg _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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