Hello I would like some help with identifying a flashing satellite I saw this morning. Observing position 29.7 S 30.8 E Altitude 550 m Time 5:23 SAST ( south african standard time, I can never remember if that is UT-2 or UT+2) Satellite observed at about AZ 250 alt 30 dir 190 It came very close to theta lupus if I have my star id correct. It had passed between alpha and tau scorpio. Please use this to confirm my alt az and dir as I may have got it wrong. Still pretty mucha beginner but getting better at astimating alt and az. I saw one bright -2 magnitude flash that's what caught my eye. then I followed the sat visually for about 2 minutes and it brightened and dimmed a couple of times before I lost it behind some trees. I estimate the magnitude as vary from -4 to 0 during the subsequent obs there was nothing as bright as the first flash. I was on my way out for a run so I was not planning to observe but the sky was really nice and I looked up. I was initially really excited as I thought I had seen my first iridium flare but I cannot find a match using iridflar. I also cannot find a satellite using quicksat and mccants.tle. My tle's are about a week old. Can someone please help with the id for me. Kind regards Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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