Just observed two of the objects from last night's launch. The brighter of the two was about mag +5 to +5.5, visible 1x in very nice Mojave Desert skies. The dimmer object, which led the brighter one by 4.8 seconds, was about mag +8 to +8.5. Assuming the OCS has inflated, and using the time separation of the two, it seems that I must have observed these: OCS 806 x 750 1 26063U 00004C 00027.45125247 .00000223 00000-0 10000-3 0 37 2 26063 100.2324 224.0988 0039498 181.4516 178.8082 14.33994366 49 ASUSAT-1 811 x 744 1 26061U 00004A 00027.80011977 .00415087 00000-0 14623+0 0 93 2 26061 100.2376 224.5097 0047238 175.3953 184.8240 14.34222799 103 with 00-004A leading 00-004C by 4.8 seconds. Ralph McConahy 34.8829N 117.0064W 670m ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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