Awesome Ed! Derek - Waiting to see the ISS in minutes.. -----Original Message----- From: seesat-l-bounces+breit_ideas=poyntsource.com@satobs.org [mailto:seesat-l-bounces+breit_ideas=poyntsource.com@satobs.org] On Behalf Of Ed Cannon Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 7:10 PM To: post seesat Subject: We saw ISS... My elderly mother was in a car accident in late July and was in the hospital for 70 days. She's been home less than two weeks. (We are very happy that she is improving from day to day.) Just a few minutes ago she and my sister and I watched the ISS go over here from west to northwest to NNE. So this was a meaningful, happy milestone for us. There has not been much satellite observing here recently. At the same time that ISS was approaching from the west, I saw an unid flashing object crossing Capricorn from west to east. Apparently it was an Atlas Centaur (04882, 71-06B). Its flash period was about 5 to 6 seconds, with +2 maxima. Earlier (about 0:53 UTC) I saw a -2 to -3 flare from an object southbound in the Vulpecula-Sagitta-Aquila region, northwest of Altair and Tarazed. Using the +5.5 predictions that Mike McCants has online for Austin, I think it may have been Skymed 4 (37216, 10-60A). I tried unsuccessfully to spot 32379 (07-60B, USA 198 Rk), whose Quicksat predictions had 500 seconds uncertainty on 49-day-old elements. It may not have been bright enough for no-magnification observing from this location. It's a very pretty evening here -- mild temperature, calm, only a few mosquitoes per cubic meter, and limiting magnitude about 4.0. The family housecats love it. Ed Cannon - currently in San Antonio, Texas _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1831 / Virus Database: 2090/4554 - Release Date: 10/15/11 _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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