I was a few miles out a town tonight and stopped on a gravel road to wait and see Object E and the ISS show up some 20 minutes later. At about 10:39:15 PM local time, using my night vision scope I looked high in the sky in the general direction of Cygnus when low and behold, NOSS 2 C, D, & E were bright and right in the middle of the FOV! Then I looked at them w/o using the scope and could easily see them in the dark sky. That is a first for me. I watched them for a number of minutes then switched back to the night scope right before the leader entered the earth's shadow then the other two did the same. I never realized just how far apart they were. I estimated at least 2 degrees from the tip of the triangle to its base. A nice night! Tom Iowa USA + + + ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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