Last night I was able to see several operational geosats with my 10x50 binoculars. In the east-southeast there were two pairs both visible in the field of view for a few minutes. At least two of them, if not all four, were Panamsats. Not too far from there but south of the normal declination was TDRS 6. Considerably farther west were Galaxy 11, Anik F1, and XM-2, which flare quite a long ways before shadow entry. Mike McCants of course caught more of them with his telescope, e.g. Nimiq 1 next to Galaxy 11 and a group of five in one FOV (23192, 23553, 23598, 25937, and 25954 -- and 26985 just west of those). Technically it's still about a week before the prime date for this phenomenon at our latitude (30.3 north). Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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