Last night Mike McCants and I saw a one-power pass of the NOSS 2-1 triplets (20642/90-50E, 20691/90-50C, 20692/90-50D). They were about +3.5 to +4.0 for a minute or so. I had predictions for only two of them because the third didn't make the +5.5 magnitude cut-off. Some time earlier I'd seen the NOSS 2-3 triplets at their usual faint magnitude with binoculars. So I didn't think I'd see NOSS 2-1 at all. But they were to go near Regulus, so I thought I'd look since it's an easy location to aim at. Well, there was a surprisingly bright satellite there, and then another, and so I looked and saw them at one-power, announced the fact exuberantly, and Mike saw them also. Wow! I'm sure glad that I decided to look! We saw a one-power Superbird A flash at 3:45:46. Location was BCRC, Austin: 30.314N, 97.866W, 270m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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