Last night a member of the local astronomy club saw, completely by accident from his swimming pool, a very bright (long) flash/flare/glint from an eastbound object. It was ETS-7 (97-074B, 25064). Mike McCants and I were watching it from BCRC. It was certainly as bright as Venus (when it's high in the sky, not like last night). The previous evening I saw it do two of those (each briefer) in close succession. Five minutes later last night we had a very bright pass of ISS, south-to-northeast, which that person in his swimming pool also saw by accident! The last two evenings the NOSS 2-3 triangle has been "two visible without binoculars, one much fainter". So many observations, so little time to do reports (due to short summer nights and sleeping a little whether I need to or not).... Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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