It is difficult to get a nice sky in NE Indy anymore. This past weekend was an exception. 6 October, Iridium 22 was right on time at 19:55. The Flare program predicting a -8.2 magnitude. I am not an expert at the magnitude approximations, but it was a "freight train in the sky"! It continued south and I followed it with binoculars off and on. At 20:03 a bright flare caught my eye almost on the same path as Iridium 22, flaring in about the same star group at what I would guess was at least a -6 magnitude. The flare was short however. I followed it south with binoculars also, and at 20:05 I noticed a second object slightly east of this one also going south but very slightly slower. The first one caught up with the second one when they were at about 45 degrees in elevation, and both were in the same field of view. I was wondering if anyone could ID these other two objects? Quin 39deg 52' 51" X 85deg 56' 35" ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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