On 9/7/02 01.23.10 UTC saw a short duration, my viewing time was 7 seconds and I may have missed some visibility at the start, flare of -2 mag max while looking between epsilon cygnus and zeta cyg unaided eye. #04237 was id using IDSat and Skymap. The alldat.tle file has it called OPS 7613 PL4 Also observed the Noss 2-3 trips on a long pass of 2 and 1/2 minutes and was able to see the pattern change where the lead #23862 pulled almost a full degree ahead during the pass. I haven't in the past seen such a long pass to see this pattern change. Seen from 02.51.00 to 02.53.20 utc when lead heads into shadow. The prior night saw an unknown in the binoc view while watching Cosmos 2344r at 01.02.37 UTC and was able to id it as #12171 / #78026L Several very nice clear nights and mornings with many other obs including Comets #25175 #98011A for a first time and in the morning a couple of times before work have seen ISS and one morning saw Iridium 19 flare to almost -7 mag Lat 39.4697 Lon -79.3393 Alt 2573 ft -4 UTC ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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