Hi Alexander, > 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 . Actually, this was Lacrosse 3 R/B (the upper stage rocket body that launched Lacrosse 3). > At around 22:47:00 it passed under Procyon. Do you mean Sirius? At 22:47:05 (UTC+13) it did indeed pass 2 degrees below Sirius. > 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. This was Cosmos 756 R/B -- it came quite close (angularly, that is) to Lacrosse 3 R/B at 22:47:20 (UTC+13) heading north. It should have been moving pretty close to parallel to the eastern horizon. > 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. Cosmos 756 R/B began to enter the earth's shadow at 22:47:45 and would have been completely shadowed by 22:47:54. Excellent report, Alexander. More than enough information to determine the identity of your mystery satellite. :-) I can send you a GIF file showing the two tracks against the stars if you're interested. --Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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