Due to a bit of cloud, I have put off going to dark sky site, have time to report Friday night (Oct 6 UT) geosat festival from TULSA2, RMCC Observatory, which had a limiting mag of 6 that night. Unbelievable amounts of sats lit up, trolled for them near "green dot" area with 12x60s, or noticed naked eye, then put ETX-125 scope on them at 47x. Just about the time I though there couldn't be any more, another would pop up. Most surprising to me was how bright some of them were, and that a few reappeared on the "other side" Absolutely amazing. Can't wait for the next few nights at an even darker site.
36 geosats total (3 reappeared, 1 was r/b), 33 new to me. Stunning!
I have no idea how to report flaring geosats, so here's an attempt:
NORAD Time Instrument Magnitude Notes
24936 2:27:38 1x 5 seen before
26580 2:27:41 1x 5 confirms - appeared "with" 24936 45 deg away
28137 2:48:06 12x 8 new
27852 3:07:00 1x 5 new
26370 3:01:24 12x 7 old - not a geosat but at 7425 miles range
20872 3:17:12 12x 8 new
23199 3:20:51 12x 8 new
31307 3:47:48 12x 8 new
25152 4:12:07 12x 8 new
26761 4:18:02 12x 8 new - formation 1
28626 4:41:41 47x 9 new - formation 1
28472 4:41:41 47x 9 confirms - formation 1
24713 4:41:41 47x 9 new - formation 1
26038 4:51:57 12x 7 new - formation 2
25740 5:05:06 47x 8 new - formation 2
22930 5:05:06 47x 9 seen before - formation 2
27711 4:54:50 12x 8 new
25954 5:17:30 1x 5 new - formation 3
29494 5:29:17 12x 7 new - formation 3
26985 5:29:17 12x 7 new - formation 3
28659 5:50:02 47x 9 new - formation 3
28903 5:38:50 12x 8 new - formation 4
29236 5:40:50 47x 9 new - formation 4
24315 5:58:00 47x 9 new - formation 5
28644 5:54:44 12x 7 new - formation 5
31862 5:58:59 47x 9 new - formation 5
28868 6:05:31 12x 8 new - formation 6
26624 6:05:31 12x 8 new - formation 6
28702 6:22:20 1x 4 new
26038 6:23:26 12x 7 reappeared after shadow egress
25740 6:27:02 12x 8 reappeared after shadow egress
27711 6:29:11 12x 7 reappeared after shadow egress
27501 6:36:46 47x 8 new - formation 7
27426 6:36:46 47x 9 new - formation 7
28935 6:36:46 47x 9 new - formation 7
26402 6:36:46 47x 9 new - formation 7
26724 6:44:22 12x 8 new - formation 8
24812 6:49:20 1x 5 new
23313 7:03:29 47x 9 new - formation 8
29520 7:03:29 47x 9 new - formation 8
Time is first time I noticed sat, NOT shadow entry time. New means new to me. Formations are my own ideas, based on sight through scope. Magnitudes are +/- 1 mag best it appeared.
COSPAR 8335
TULSA2
35.8311°N, 96.1471°W, 1100 ft ASL
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