Hi to all the list, I`m a keen if spasmodic viewer of satellites passing above Richmond, Nelson, New Zealand (41.3330°S, 173.1830°E) Shift work plus young family plus the usual weather considerations are all limiting factors to my observing but I never fail to be fscinated by what I have seen, & am slowly starting to recognise things out of the ordinary, ( or at least different to b4). I`ve been getting most of my satellite info from the Heavens Above web site but occasionally there are sightings that don`t feature on here. Where I live is approximately geographically opposite Europe & we seem to get a lot of satellite passes. I`ve seen 14 in a 25 minute period once, that included down to magnitude 4, it needs to be exceptionall clear to see fainter that this, too many bright street lights ! Anyway, tonight , about 22:25 GMT +13, I saw three satellites moving at the same speed, in close proximity to one another ( a hand at arms length covered them, not sure what that is in degrees ) , they were travelling approx SW to NE & all had much the same brightness, about magnitude 3 .I`d have put their altitude at about 75 degrees. Their relative positions did not appear to cange in the time I observed them, maybe 2 minutes. The only time I saw anything like this was an Iridium flare followed immediately by another both travelling the same orbit from what I could observe, I read somewhere that Iridium has spare satellies travelling like this.I wondered if this could be something similar. There it is sorry to be so wordy, try to be more concise next time. Cheers, Steve Hannah ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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