I watched for the same satellites two days in a row sometime after 10PM CDT and haven't seen them yet! I was using my night vision scope both times. Tom NE Iowa ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pinizzotto,Russell" <ZZOTTO@mail.nwmissouri.edu> To: <seesat-l@satobs.org> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:36 PM Subject: GRACE 1 and 2 > I watched GRACE 1 followed aapproximately 22 sec later by GRACE 2 (which > agrees with a previous posting today about the separation) last night here > in Northwestern Missouri. The pass was from the north to the west, passing > above Perseus and then along the side of Auriga at approximately 03:51 UT on > 24 April (22:51 CDT, 23 April). My location is 40.35 N and 94.97 W at 330 > m. > > The reason for these details is that the satellites were BRIGHT! > Heavens-Above predicted mag 7.0 for both of them. In actuality, they were > unaided eye objects at about the same mag as beta-Aur, which is 1.9! Is > this normal for this pair of satellites? > > It was almost as good a pairing as watching the ISS and Shuttle last week > from a brightly lit parking lot. I'm glad I stayed to watch. I almost had > decided to wait and see them on another day. > > Best Regards, > Russ Pinizzotto ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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