Although several hundred miles north of you, Ed, I saw the same thing. At first I thought I had just not noticed it was a triplet, but as you state, by the SE part of Ophiuchus, it had "lapped" them a bit. Thanks for saving me the trouble of id'ing the tag-along. That was quite surprising. I also have failed twice now to see NOSS 2-1, after several recent bright apparitions. Failed on NOSS 2-3 last night and TiPS 7/14 for no reason. May be the muggy skies. I like the pre-ids idea...been seeing a lot of those lately, great week of observing. Brad Young +36.1, 95.9W, 205m elev. Ed Cannon wrote: >I went to watch the NOSS 3-2 pair (03-054A,C; 28095, 28097), and >there was a third object traveling along with them, forming a >nice triangle. It was above them, same magnitude, very similar >apparent velocity, but through the pass it very gradually gained >on them and finally moved out ahead of them. It turned out to >be Cosmos 785 (75-116A, 08473). >Like Randy John, I also managed to see the NOSS 2-1 triplets, >due to the help of Mike having his scope aimed at them. I had a >very difficult time finding them with the 8x42. I guess they've >engaged a stealth mode, because just a week or so ago they were >very easy to see. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.712 / Virus Database: 468 - Release Date: 6/27/04 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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