Greetings fellow sat observers. I need some help with a satellite identification. All of my software tools are out of commission at the moment, but I'm really curious as to what I saw. My location is 48.442 N, 122.316 W. Time was approx May 12, 05:45 UTC when it passed just to the west of Polaris. The sat was traveling S to N, on a very high altitude pass. I'd say at least 75 degrees, maybe more since I didn't catch it until late in the pass. It was a very irregular flasher, flaring to probably -2 a few times, but with no pattern that I could see. I lost it several times due to washout from the moon. Please forgive the roughness of my estimates, I did not expect to see much when I walked out on the deck, so I didn't bring any of my usual viewing tools, or a clock. My guess is that it was probably an Iridium tumbler.. Thanks, Alex ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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