Vilis Miklasevics reported: > Last night [2003 Jun 26 UTC] I was at a garden party just northeast of the > city [Toronto, Canada]. At around [01:50 UTC or 02:50 UTC], I saw two satellites > - about 10 deg. apart on the SAME trajectory - pass through the Summer Triangle. > My best estimate was a W to E direction. (maybe SE to NW). Maximum altitude was ~80 deg. Welcome to SeeSat-L, Vilis! A couple of possible candidates are: IGS 1B 0.0 0.0 0.0 3.2 v 1 27699U 03009B 03175.93099035 .00003000 00000-0 11699-3 0 04 2 27699 97.4080 247.3533 0001500 84.7482 275.2517 15.25980922 01 03009E 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 ? 1 27702U 03009E 03177.11167354 .00057482 00000-0 15523-2 0 1475 2 27702 97.2989 248.3805 0005291 62.9763 297.2022 15.37547013 13783 IGS 1B, followed by a piece of debris from its launch, 03009E, passed though the summer triangle (the region bounded by the stars Vega, Deneb and Altair) at about 02:52 UTC. At culmination, they were about 18 deg apart, but would have appeared closer at lower elevations. They were headed NNW. Vilis, if you can describe both objects in terms of their magnitude (absolute or relative to one another) and whether or not they were steady or varying, that would be helpful in deciding whether or not you observed the above. Ted Molczan ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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