Good evening everyone, While looking at the sky around a campfire at home, Lucille, two friends and I watched a slow moving satellite that suddenly started to flare but slowly. To our amazement, it reached a magnitude of -6 with a nice blue color. I then checked with SatSpy and it was USA 129 ! Time of the flare was 01:46 UTC on Aug 19 with the satellite nearly overhead. It was the nicest flare I saw from a satellite, but not the brightest. Dan -- Daniel Deak Webmestre, site Obsat Pompier, municipalite de L'Avenir, Quebec COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 m., UTC-4:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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