Hello everyone, I had a nice evening of observation on April 30 (May 01 UT). All the times in this report are UTC. First, the results for the classified objects in IOD : 24680 96 072A 0000 E 20000501013736700 37 25 1912600+673950 68 S+035 07 11720 80 019A 0000 E 20000501015926700 37 25 0737250+323800 68 S+090 07 20691 90 050C 0000 E 20000501024614300 37 25 1113670+195200 68 S+035 07 14729 84 012D 0000 E 20000501032730400 37 25 1058000+553600 68 S+085 07 14728 84 012C 0000 E 20000501032756500 37 25 1052250+545300 68 S+085 07 Please note that these obs were made in St-Cyrille, Quebec at 45.8999 N, 72.4328 W, 90 m 24680 = USA 129 11720 = NOSS 3 A 20691 = NOSS 2-1 C 14729 = NOSS 6 D (Your elsets worked David) 14728 = NOSS 6 C The NOSS 2-1 trio was easily visible naked eye during most of its pass. C and E objects were at mag 3.5 and D was at mag 4.0. It was quite an impressive sight as they crossed Leo. It's the second time in one year I see them at 1x. Saw a nice mag -7 flare from Iridium 32 at 02:27:22 exactly on time. While preparing to observe NOSS 3A, I saw a spectacular but very brief flash near Pollux I estimated at mag -5 or -6. I waited and saw an other one dimmer at mag 0 at around 01:53:42 and a last one at mag 3 at 01:53:50. I suspected a tumbling Iridium and later found the culprit as being no 24. I also timed #25861 SL-16 rocket but accidently dropped my stopwatch and lost my timings :-( I had timed 30 periods. While waiting for USA 129, I saw 3 other sats later identified as : #09040 Landsat 2 r mag 5 #18820 Meteor 2-17 mag 3.5 #16262 Cosmos 1703 mag 3.5 In all, a nice but very cold evening. Cheers, Dan -- Daniel Deak Drummondville, Québec COSPAR site 1746 : 45.8537°N, 72.4857°W, 90 m., UTC-5:00 E-mail : dan.deak@obsat.com ICQ : 52770063 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.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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