In a message dated 5/8/00 1:43:00 AM EDT, StarliteStella@aol.com writes: > Hi Friends! On Friday night, May 5th, at 9:08 pm PDT, I saw a satellite > coming from the southwest to northeast, about 80degrees declination, coming > right above Canine Major and bottom of Gemini, that was of a very large > magnitude (about Pollux), and moving like the International Space Station. > Am I right? I am in San Francisco--please help! Thanks! The Mir went by at 8:45pm PDT. The ISS did not have a visible pass on 5/5. Below are 2 candidates that seem to match your description of the pass. I wouldn't expect either one to reach +2.0 mag although at a dark sky location they may be visible at 1x. Cosmos 1249 6.0 2.5 0.0 5.6 d 1 12319U 81021A 00125.14435291 -.00000007 +00000-0 +71221-4 0 08045 2 12319 064.9579 145.9298 0040176 143.8911 216.4873 13.86259754972404 Cosmos 1190 r 7.4 2.4 0.0 5.5 v 1 11870U 80056B 00125.14013724 .00000474 00000-0 17823-3 0 4170 2 11870 74.0498 153.0604 0017314 220.6838 139.3014 14.34154306 37311 A large fragment of the Cosmos 2369 rocket was in that area of the sky. Cosmos 2369rDb 3.0 0.0 0.0 5.5 d 1 26074U 00006D 00128.04200461 .00000176 00000-0 21809-3 0 339 2 26074 70.9619 138.2683 0217339 313.7494 44.5794 13.68198643 53448 There was, however a DMSP that passed S->N at 9:10pm PDT. DMSPs can reach negative magnitude. DMSP B5D2-7 6.4 1.7 0.0 6.4 v 1 23233U 94057A 00128.08675864 .00000700 00000-0 37267-3 0 01 2 23233 98.6360 172.1419 0011000 109.5107 250.4892 14.13426736 04 Cheers Don Gardner 39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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