Thanks Björn. Well, most of the sky here is blocked by trees, but we picked them up just after (north of) Deneb, I would say the direction they were travelling would have sent them between Deneb and Vega, probably a tad closer to Deneb (how's that for scientific 8^) That would make the max altitude around 85 degrees toward East. They continued North and passed very close to Polaris which by then they had dropped to around 3 mag. I'm afraid I can't do any better on the time, we had no watch, but if there's error I would say extend the window +15 or 30 minutes max. Sorry so vague like I said we had no watch. I just thought there was a triplet I was unfamiliar with that someone would say, "oh yeah that's the xyz triplet" or something. My limiting mag is about 4 here. I checked the older NOSS triplets, there are only a few that look like are still "triplets" and I figured maybe one of those groups was it but they weren't around at that altitude. Could it possibly be a rocket body and debris? Thanks again! Bill --- _Gimle <Björn_gimle@algonet.se> wrote: > The only triangle (with parallell tracks) I found above 55 degree > altitude around 01:15 UTC was OV1-9, 65-16D and 70-25BA, but only > 65-16D > was moving N (the other two anti-parallell) and all are faint. > > Using a wider time range (+-3.5 min) I get lots of (faint) tracks, > but > it's hard to discern triangles on parallell paths. 91-68AJ is > running > parallell with Cosmos 1553 Rk, but at 2/3 the speed. > > What is your time accuracy, and where did the triangle move in > relation > to Vega-Deneb-Altair ? > > Mitchell1.gif is made with mag limit of +7, but Mitchell2.gif and > the > report files were produced with mag 12. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > While stargazing the night of September 8 from Erie, PA USA > (42.072N > > 80.143W) around 21:30 EDT or September 9 01:30 UT three of us saw > a > > widely spaced trio of satellites travelling North at zenith at > approx > > mag -1. No joke, they were obviously brighter than vega at 0 > mag. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' > in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org > List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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