I observed with the unaide eye at 0.55.00 UTC in Serpens a nebulous cloud in clear skies, not looking quite like a regular cloud. After moving my telescope, 8" dobs, to get a view I saw 2 sats approx 4/10 degree apart and the gas cloud started about 2/10 degree from one sat. The other sat was lined up 4/10 degree away with the cloud looking like it came from both. The cloud was narrow starting the 2/10 degree away from sat1 and funneled out and wrapped back around. Cloud was probably 3 degree diameter, so not all visible in fov of telescope at same time. Slow moving, 19 seconds to cross the 1.4 degree fov. At 1.28.00 UTC it took 1 minute to cross 1.4d fov. I had to stop observing at this time. Cloud had become very faint but both sats still in fov together but now more like 6/10 degree apart. I watched it for over 1/2 hour. At times I would watch 1x and still go back and find it in telescope, slow moving and big cloud easy to find. The cloud during the last 10 minutes was not visible unaided eye. The sat closest to the cloud flashed several times during the 1st 10 minutes to a 5 mag, at end steady 8 mag. Other sat steady 8 mag. At 1.01.12 UTC noted the cloud going into corona boreallis 1x. Watched it move under the keystone of hercules 1x. At 1.16.10 UTC it was approx 1.5 degree under beta draco. At 1.25.44 UTC sat1 1/3 degree , on the right in tele view, from a double and sat2 at 1.25.53 1/2 degree on the other side of the double ( have not been able to id star double, yet) I'm going to go online and try to find the answer to what sats I saw. Wow! What did I see? Lat. 39.4707 Lon. -79.3388 Alt. 2753 ft. -4 UTC ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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