Last night as I was looking for Milstar 3 (25724, 99-23A) I found a brightly flashing object. I knew there was a pass of a Galaxy-something rocket (Galaxy 5 Rk, 21907, 92-13B) and so started timing it. Then I saw that it was catching up with a slower-moving object -- Milstar 3! Then as I watched those two, from the north a third, brighter object entered the field of view of my 10x50s! I haven't confirmed it yet, but it was almost certainly OCS (26062, 00-4B). It and Milstar 3 came very close to one another at about 2:50:51.6 UTC. 92- 13 B 00-05-31 02:52:16 EC 129.3 0.3 7 18.48 mag +3.5 (+3.0?) maxima BCRC - 30.314N, 97.866W, 280m As Sue Worden said, the GRO pass was definitely a nice one here last night. Sorry to see it going down. Besides all of the great science it has done, it was one of the very first ones that I saw in March '96 that got me interested in this hobby! (It was an UNID until I heard from someone named Mike McCants, who ID'ed it for me.) 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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