Hi all, Lucille and I were warming ourselves around a fire at home and we decided to watch for satellites at the same time. I took my laptop with me and used it to identify what we saw. All began with a spectacular flash from Iridium 69. We were waiting for a flare from Iri 76 at 02:05 UTC (July 4) and saw this flash on about the same track but farther north. It was so bright, at least mag -9, that it illuminated the grass around us, a bit like the Moon. Here is what we saw with name, cat. no, time of obs in UTC July 4 and magnitude at that time : Iridium 69 25319 02:04 flash m-9 or -10 Iridium 76 25432 02:05 flare m-4 Radcat 06212 03:15 m3.5 Cosmos 1980 r 19650 03:26 m3.0 Cosmos 1190 r 11870 03:32 m4.0 Tansuo 1 LM2r 28222 03:46 m2.0 max. Nice flasher Meteor 1-28 r 10114 04:04 m3.5 just before shadow entry Cosmos 2405 28350 04:09 m2.3 -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine L'Avenir, Quebec COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 m., UTC-4:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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