Hello, Observations: 01:56:39 - Saw Cosmos 1892. 01:59:55 - Saw a SL-16 Rocket. At about 02:16, I saw a UNID, going north to south, in the western sky at about 70 degrees elevation, with a magnitude of about +3 to +4.5 (it was somewhere around that brightness. I don't know exactly how bright, since I saw it in binoculars, where anything brighter than +6 looks bright in my binoculars. And of course I couldn't see it naked-eye with all my light-pollution and a full moon in the sky). Anybody have an idea of what it could have been? 03:22:58 - saw a very pleasantly bright -7 flare from Iridium 29. P.S.: I wanted to see more satellites, including some ISS passes, but right when I started observing, the local basketball team won a playoff series. Within minutes, I began to hear disturbing drunken yells in the distance, a couple hundred meters away or so. By ~ 02:18, the yells began to come closer, and then I heard what seemed to be someone firing off a gun. That was it - I went inside, choosing to live another day, at the expense of not seeing some good satellite passes. At ~ 05:45, I saw a nice telescopic view of Mars which is quickly coming to opposition. At ~ 09:10, I saw Venus rising in the east. It is at the familar 1st/3rd quarter illumination stage as viewed from Earth. ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 4 hours behind UT (-4) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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