Mike McCants and I observed the NOSS 2-2 triplets (91-076C, D, and E; 21799, 21808, 21809) at one-power, about +3.5, for about two minutes, approx. 4:31-33 on July 8 UTC. Although there was bright moonlight, they were opposite the Moon, and the night was quite clear. Follow-up on Orion 3 -- The Thursday evening (early July 7 UTC) pass was disappointing. As it went on towards the east the flashes were brightening, but it was getting farther away and extinction was increasing. It was ten minutes earlier than the previous night, and apparently the really bright flashes, if there were any, were a few hundred kilometers to our east. We were compensated some time later with two brilliant Iridium flares (Iridium 16 and 86 "?"), predicted -6 and -9 less than two minutes apart. They both certainly appeared to be as predicted, and the first one may have been -7. Friday evening the Orion 3 pass was again 10 minutes earlier than the previous night, was thus deep into bright twilight, and occurred as we were in the car on the way to the observing site (30.314N, 97.866W, 280m). Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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