Hi, I was doing some Binocular stargazing tonight, switching back from naked eye to my 10x50s every once in a while, and I happened to see two relatively bright sats pass over. I wasn't ready to take positional measurements or accurate timings (although I did have the stopwatch in my pocket) so my details are sketchy at best. The first sat was very fast moving, and passed below Vega and I *think* above Deneb around 3:18UTC. The second was slow moving relative to the first, passing near Vega at about 3:21:30UTC and I have I identified it as Cosmos 1242 R. So that leaves the first. I ran predictions for that time period, and I can't find anything even remotely matching what I saw. Normally, I wouldn't care, but it seems to me that this could be some type of classified sat, because it was moving very fast (suggesting a low orbit?) and was bright, I'd say from mag 2 to 3.5. It wasn't flashing, and the mag was continuous throughout the pass. My location is: lat 41.831 long -87.819 So.. any thoughts? Patrick __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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