Just got back in from watching about 60 degrees of a pass of the tumbling Meteor 3M Rk rocket. The sky was relatively bright due to light pollution and humidity. I found it much easier to see it in my Night-Owl night vision scope than in my 7 x 35 binos. H-A predicted a very close pass to Altair and indeed it did get very very close. I have no good data on another thing I saw except to say that I observed an unexpected double flare off of something that was about 20 up in the ENE traveling approximately North. I don't think the direction was quite conducive for an iridium satellite and whatever it was literally disappeared from view after the flares, even in my night vision scope. The time of the flare was around 22:23 - 22:25 my time. It reached a magnitude of -1 at least. That is the first time I have accidentally seen a flare like that. Neat!! Last night my teenage daughter and I hurried out back to share the experience of seeing the NOSS 2-3 CDE trio drift over. It was her first NOSS observation. She was thrilled! Because of its 3X magnification I had Emily use the night scope. One last thing. I purchased some red tape made to cover broken taillights and put three layers over the lens of my small flashlight. The light looked a little magenta so I added one layer of yellow post-it tape and now it is relatively dim, diffused and very red. Clear skies! Tom Iowa USA ..... +42.473513 by -92.360413 274 meters above sea level - 5 hours GMT this time of year ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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