got my first picture of a geo sat in the night sky

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Feb 11 2007 - 12:07:11 EST

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    I was able to capture the Intelsat 1R ( 26608 ) geo sat when it was flaring up, with my pentax
K110D digital SLR.

http://www.kfetter.com/image/26608.jpg

The geo sat, is the star to the right of the word " geosat ":)

It was between 4 to 5th magnitude at the time.

Kevin

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