I just saw the "C" object of the CloudSat/CALIPSO launch - easy naked
eye object (about 3.4 magnitude - perhaps a little fainter than delta
UMa but definitely brighter then alpha Dra) as it entered the earth's
shadow. It seemed to be steady and, hopefully, when updated name data
appear, I'll know which object I saw. In the two minutes after I saw
that object, I continued looking with 10x50 binoculars but noted no
other objects (in a light-polluted sky with limiting visual magnitude
about 4).
IOD:
29109 06 016C 8840 G 20060429072224000 28 S+034 03
Clear and dark skies!
Ed Light
Lakewood, NJ, USA
Site 8840, N 40.1075, W 074.2312, +24 m (80 ft)
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