When i got the latest elsets of recently launched sats from Mike McCants' site i noticed several UNK's listed but with Cosmos 2369's numbers which indicated they are part of that launch. So i checked to see when they would pass by. Rather than have UNK this and UNK that, i named them C 2369 C, D, E and G. What F was, who knows? Anyway at 01:28:38 7 Feb UTC +/- 2 sec, object C 2369 D #26074 00006D passed approx 3 deg above (S) Alkaid in Ursa Major. Mag 3 est in Aurora haze in that part of the sky. A little over half an hour later Cosmos 2369 Rk #26070 00006B passed just slightly above Alkaid at 02:00:55 UTC +/- 2 sec. Mag 3.5 under increasing haze. A few minutes later i looked for Cosmos 2369 #26069 00006A but the haze prevented any obs of it. Later on when the other UNKs, C 2369 C #26073 00006C, C 2369 E #26075 00006E and C 2369 G #26077 00006G came by i looked for them both at 1X and 10x50 but nothing was seen with haze still around and the objects expected to enter shadow shortly after coming within my line of sight. Also i had a nice -8 flare by IR 32 #24945 97051B at 02:06:27. Jari 54.25N 110.11W 556m ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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