This evening while leaving my house I made a glance up to the northwest sky and noticed a bright pair of objects. They were located a couple degrees south of gamma UMa. The brighter object was the one at a higher elevation and I would estimate its brightness as magnitude 0 or -1. The other object was about magnitude 1 or 0 in brightness. From their motion I could tell these two objects were in a high orbit. Even my wife remarked "What's that?" noting that the Big Dipper had "extra stars". I immediately noted the time to be 7:41PM EST and noticed that the flare had already reached maximum and the brightness of the objects was decreasing. Within 30 seconds the two objects had faded out of view. Later when we got home I used Guide 8 to find that the objects were #26905 and #26907 the USA160 pair. Hopefully I can follow these two objects on a future pass observe the full flare from beginning to end. Steve Seitz White Barn Observatory 40.1525 N 84.4615 W 299 m No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.9/1292 - Release Date: 2/21/2008 4:09 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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