I think I saw my first satellite with my Meade ETX-125EC this evening... but am not sure since I am a novice to all this. I'm trying to identify what I saw without a finding clear match using Heavens Above website. My location is 47.9532°N, 122.2299°W. At 18:39 PST I saw something moving very fast at approximately 40 degrees (give or take 20... I'm not yet setup for accurate measurements) altitude due NE. I followed for about two-three minutes until it faded out completely with very little change in altitude due SE. It did not blink, flash or otherwise change brightness at all until I lost it due SE which leads me to believe it wasn't an aircraft of any sort. It was a small dot about the same brightness as most of the stars around (I'm in a fairly heavily light polluted neighborhood near Everett, WA). Any guesses what it was? Cody ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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