Re: Can anyone ID this unknown?

From: Bjorn Gimle (b.gimle@chello.se)
Date: Mon Sep 30 2002 - 02:28:23 EDT

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With SkyMap; within +-5 min, further than 3000 km :
#27367 02-003A DASH  3.0 by 1.5m, moving in Dir=230 degrees (~8 o'clock),
range 20000 km
#02717 67-026A Intsat 2-3  moving in Dir=280 (both wrt. stars)
(wrt. horizon Dir=200 and 005 resp.)

Map sent to Eddie

> Noticed by accident as a naked-eye flash (perhaps mag. 2?) just south of
> Alpha and Nu Capricorni at approx. 20:00UT, 29 Sept 2002.
>
> Picked it up in 20x60 binoculars and followed it for the next several
> minutes as it drifted very slowly in a south-easterly direction -- the


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