Hello everybody, In the night of the 29th to the 30th November I enjoyed Lacrosse 3 at 22:45 Local Time. It went nice like predicted with the Mag. of 3.1 . At around 22:47:00 it passed under Procyon. Cicra 10 to 15 seconds later I catched with my binocs (12x50 5.8 deg field) about 3 degrees under Lac3 an object with about the same magnitude and same speed, but in the nearly absolut opposit direction. 25 - 30 Seconds later the object disappeard in the NNE slowly, like a dissapaering Iridium, still about 20 degres high. So it didn't loose much height in this time. My Data; Location: Dunedin, New Zealand (45.8670S 170.5000E 20m) NZDT (UTC+13:00) heavens-above for Lacrosse 3 Rocket: Mag Start Alt Az Max Ends 3.1 22:42:46 16deg N 22:45:12 27deg NE 22:48:50 10deg ESE data for unknow object: Time when catched: 22:47:10 +/- 5sec alt: ca 23deg AZ: Azimut of Lac3 at this time: East moving: opposit direction of Lac3, nearly parallel dissapearing at ca. 22:47:40 Alt: 20deg Az: NNE Yesterday I checked heavens-above.com after that. Nothing in brighter sattelites for the time and direction, and it was about Mag 3. What can it have been? Maybe a disapearing Iridium after a very faint flare shortly before I cought the sat? Or any not listed satellite that is not in the prediction list? ...? Thank you very much for any comments, ideas, ... Clear nights, nice passes and for everybody in the south a nice summer. Alexander ____________________________________________________________________ Alexander Marschand alexoid@hotmail.com Dunedin, New Zealand 45.8670S 170.5000E 20m NZDT (UTC+13:00) _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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