Intelsat 707 observed

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 14:15:46 UTC

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I was trying to see what geo sat's, I could detect, using my wide feild setup. 

At 2:45 UTC ( Sept 23 ) I observed the Intelsat 707 ( 23816 ) roughly mag 9 range, ie faint.

Didn't notice any other, for 3 hours I was looking.

I use the scope method tonight, as I can see fainter.

Kevin





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