Hi all, At 21:02 UTC I observed, naked eye, the EAS tank recently ejected from the ISS (that is: the one SSC *currently* designates as EAS: 98-067BA, #31928). I first picked it up while it was passing through northern Ophiuchus, then passed close to zeta Aql, somewhat over Altair and towards Delphinus. It initially was comparable to the stars of the arrow (i.e around mag. 4, 4.5), but rapidly became fainter while near Delphinus and I quickly lost it then. 10 minutes earlier I tried to spot the VSSA object ejected from ISS too but failed. This observation was done while this evening I went to check out what will become an occasional secondary observing site for me, 25 minutes biking distance in the polder east of the town. It is much darker (got to mag. +6.6 with naked eye at 21:40 UTC, sun at -16 degrees) and has 360 degree view down to the horizon. Daytime 360 degree panorama image here: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/3719338 I plan to use this site occasionally for objects that remain too low for my regular observing location at home, e.g. the Shuttle on its MECO orbit. I might also observe meteors there, with sats as a byproduct. I had actually planned to do some serious sat observing there this evening, but upon arrival at the site I discovered I had forgotten to put my DCF77 radio clock in my backpack. So without a reliable time source, I could only do some recreational observing, including this EAS observation and the ISS itself half an hour later. - Marco ----- Dr Marco Langbroek - SatTrackCam Leiden, Cospar 4353 Leiden, the Netherlands. 52.15412 N, 4.49081 E (WGS84), +0 m ASL SatTrackCam: http://home.wanadoo.nl/marco.langbroek/satcam.html Station (b)log: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com Atom RSS: http://sattrackcam.blogspot.com/atom.xml e-mail: sattrackcam@wanadoo.nl ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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