Hello, Tonight I tried something new (to me anyway). I wanted to see the infrequent naked eye visible flashes of the tumbling Iridium 911 satellite viewing them at 1X but I also wanted to watch the details of its undulating light as well. So, with my glasses on, I looked through my 3X night scope monocular with my left eye and kept my right eye open at the same time. I focused the scope to match my unaided eye. I found that I could study the faint irregular pattern as well as get an idea about which flashes were bright enough to see unaided in my light polluted skies. Because the two images were not perfectly lined up I could obviously tell that the bright flashes were present in both eyes. Later I tried watching the tumbling rocket body SL-16 R-B with one eye looking right at it and the other eye looking through 7X binoculars. That method was not a winner because I found it very difficult to locate it in the binocs. Clear skies! Tom P.S. Venus is plainly visible in the daytime right now. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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