I just observed a bright naked eye pass of NOSS 2-1 CDE from my backyard in town and in a bright moonlit sky! It was, much to my surprise easy to follow w/o optical aid even into the quadrant of the sky where the moon was located. I had also just emerged from the house and was not at all dark adapted. The overall spread of the three satellites was about 1.5 times wider than the short side of the parallelogram of Lyra, which it passed over. When they passed Lyra they were arranged in an L shape that stretched out into more of a flattened triangle as they moved past my zenith. Quite interesting to observe. It was a very nice break from the writing of a boring term paper that I am working on. :~) Thanks Louis for sending me the details of this great pass! Tom Iowa USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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