I was filming the Lunar occultation of Gamma Libra and hit record too late to catch a pair of satellites skim the darkside of the Lunar surface. I didn't have other optics at the moment to try to follow them as the occultation was priority. I was filming from Could it have been 37372 and 32276?event time: 02:28am UTC August 1, 2017location: just near Iridium Satellite's HQ at: N 38.924, W -77.223. spacing: Their separation was about 6 arc seconds apart, flying side-by-side. Sky direction: They were pretty much going straight North (from Polaris) to South parallel with EQ gridlines, so if looking at the Moon with the terminator up and down, Moon's North at the top, they were passing from 1-2 o'clock to 7-8 o'clock..... Thanks for taking the time to answer! T. On Monday, July 31, 2017 1:30 AM, John Gerrard via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> wrote: Less than two days to launch of two satellites into sun-synchronous orbit:http://www.arianespace.com/mission/vega-flight-vv10/ _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l | | Virus-free. www.avg.com | _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Mon Jul 31 2017 - 22:41:20 UTC
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