I concur (from Dallas TX). I have watched NOSS 2-3 for
three nights in a row coming from the north,
disappearing somewhere in the south late at night.
Each time, I only see 2 of the 3 sats, but the two are
quite bright. Last night they came in through the top
of the Summer Triangle and eclipsed at Altair. They
were as bright as any star in Cygnus with the
exception of Deneb. I've also been having predicted
high passes of Iridium 920 but can not see it. Isn't
this one of the flashing sats? It (like NOSS 2-3) has
been coming in from the north and going to my south at
all different locations (in the east, in the west,
overhead...) but no flashing.
- Jeff Umbarger
Plano, TX
--- Ed Cannon <ecannon@mail.utexas.edu> wrote:
> This seems unusual enough to mention. Last night I
> could see
> only two of the NOSS 2-3 triplets. The two I could
> see (leader
> and outlier, I believe, so 96-029D and C, 23862 and
> 23908, I
> think) were both +5 or brighter -- easy to see. I
> was using
> 8x42 binoculars from the driveway of my parents'
> house in San
> Antonio, Texas. The weather was fine. Even when
> they're quite
> faint, if I can see one of a trio I can see all
> three. So this
> was, for me, pretty unusual, especially since these
> three travel
> so closely together.
>
> Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas,
> USA
>
>
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