USA 144 and AMS 4 (DMSP F4)

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I'm not (yet) much good at all at trying to get positions,  but perhaps it
will be helpful -- or at least of interest -- to report that this morning
(about 10:06 UTC on 12 August), USA 144 (25744, 99-28A) made consecutive
binocular-field crosses with Cosmos 1151 (11671, 80-5A) and Cosmos 2251 Rk 
(22676, 93-36B) within a few seconds of one another.  I had found USA 144
earlier and then switched to try (successfully, I believe) to find AMS 4/DMSP
F4 (11389, 79-50A); then I went back to USA 144 again and observed the two
crossers.  Both USA 144 and AMS 4 were easy objects in binoculars this
morning, definitely brighter than +5.  The location was 30.314N, 97.866W,
270m.

I hope that all the solar eclipse-watchers had great success!

I managed to see a fair number of pre-maximum Perseids this morning and hope
to do so again tonight.  Sorry to hear about the clouds in the midwest USA.

Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
(The netscape.net address is temporary -- I hope!)

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