Howdy All, I hope you listers don't mind if someone like me, who does not have the time to get serious about this hobby (beyond the limits of H-A) makes ID requests like this from time to time. Last night, after our bi-monthly Thursday night poker game, I was standing in the yard of a friend, with a pal that shares an interest in astronomy (and also owns an 8" Schmitt, like myself), talking about viewing deep space objects as we both had our heads tilted up into our wonderful +6 West Virginia skies when we saw a couple of very bright flashes, apparently from a LEO, despite the very late hour. The first one I noticed had to be -1 or -2, the second less than 10 degrees distant and no more than 1 mag dimmer, and I might have seen a third flash, too, although it couldn't have been much brighter than +4. These were strobe like flashes, and not flares, like I described seeing last month on this list from SPOT 3. The time was approximately 1:42 AM (I don't take my stopwatch to poker!), the azimuth was approximately NE and the altitude about 65 to 70 by my best guess (the neighbor's yard is surrounded by tall trees, so I was not quite properly oriented). My own location is at lat=38.067, long=-80.434, 2950' Elevation, and my neighbor lives about 2 miles SE of here at about the same elevation. I apologize for the extremely rough nature of these details, but like I said, I'm a casual observer, and I wasn't even looking from a familiar location. As I keep saying, the level of expertise exhibited by most of the regular posters to this list is light years beyond my own capabilities. I'll bet someone out there on this list can tell me what we saw. I look forward to hearing from someone regarding this sighting. Best Regards, Art Glick Almost Heaven Group HC 67 Box 539 BB Renick WV 24966 Phone 304-497-2610 Fax 304-497-2698 e-mail art@almostheaven.net http://www.almostheaven.net/ ---------------------------------------------- Offering direct sales of Saunas, Steamrooms and the widest selection of Pool, Spa, Sauna and Hot Tub Equipment worldwide. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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