I saw NanoSail-D from Muurame, Finland (62N, 25E) half an hour ago while watching very nice Notilucent cloud display. The satellite was very bright rising on southern sky left of Cygnus. It was flashing with a period of one second or so, being well brighter than Vega when brightest and about the same magnitude between the bright flashes. It faded gradually and I lost it when it reached Perseus. The sky was clear but quite bright. The pass details from Heavens Above: http://www.heavens-above.com/PassDetails.asp?lat=62.133&lng=25.667&loc=Muurame&alt=98&tz=EET&satid=37361&date=40755.9613939005 The satellite was imaged from the automatic AllSky camera taking 30 second exposures about every minute. The camera is located at Nyrölä observatory about 35 North from me. http://nyrola.jklsirius.fi/ccd/capture/NanoSail-20110731-230346UTC.jpg best regards, arto -- Arto Oksanen arto.oksanen@jklsirius.fi Muurame, Finland _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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