I observed a bright transit last night by coincidence. My location: lat 29.55 deg, long -95.36 deg Time: approximately 03:06 UTC today Object location: elevation approx. 40 deg, azimuth 90, traveling South to North Magnitude: between Venus and Jupiter (sorry, I haven't trained myself to better know magnitudes) at its maximum; brightness decay was slow, so it was not an Iridium and it was not tumbling. Using CalSky and a limiting magnitude of 7, I found three potential matches: Resurs 1-4 (25394, 1998-043A ) which is the best apparent match, NOAA 14 (23455, 1994-089A), and Cosmos 877 (09594, 1976-118G). CalSky shows predicted magnitudes between 5.1 and 5.8, but my experience was much brighter. I was wondering if anyone has experience with any of these three objects getting so bright. Thanks, Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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