Despite twilight conditions, sun angle -10 deg, i looked for GRACE 1 #27391 02012A and GRACE 2 #27392 02012B at 1x. I spotted a brief flare with an orange tint to the North and if correct, a second flare would follow a short time later indicating that it was indeed the GRACE pair. At 04:46:21 30 Apr UTC +/- 3 sec a mag 3 flare became visible at roughly the same spot, Az 18 deg El 35 deg. It was GRACE 2 and it had the same orange tint to it. Each lasted only about 2 sec but long enough to see under the poor lighting conditions. I then had to use my 10x50s to follow GRACE 2 as it went by on the Mizar side of Alkaid in Ursa Major. Although i thought it was #1 at first so i waited at Alkaid for #2 to show up to get a seperation timing so i didn't follow the object when it travelled to the South. This was my first 'Eastern' observation of the GRACE duo, all the others have been to the West. Jari 49.40N 125.00W 30m ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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