Hello I have for years been a long time lurker. While I am not do not currently have the time to contribute I saw something tonight I feel is worth reporting. I checked heavens-above before emailing, and based on the following observation, I saw nothing that matches. My location (*42.4403°N, 71.7435°W)* Time a few minutes before 10:40 pm. EST on April 13th, 2012 Through scatter clouds I noticed two satellites traveling south to north passing between mars and Regulus (one trailing the other by I would estimate half the distance between mars and Regulus) heading into the ladle of the big dipper between stars Phecda and Merak. I lost track of the pair just before they reached the big dipper. They seemed (which I am sure is an eye trick) to be wobbling as they traveled north, maybe tumbling and varying in brightness enough to appear as a wobble? The lead was brighter than the trailing satellite, I would guess (I am not good at this so use wide error bars) ~mag. 2. The reason I am posting this is, I could not find what appeared to be a bright set of satellites for my location and time that matches what I saw and it seems very strange that you have a pair of satellites flying in such close formation. I apologize for the quality and lack of an accurate time for the observation, especially if this is a well known pair. Kevin-rf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20120413/8e6e8fb3/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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