Hi everyone ! I'm Patrick, 55, French Air Force Officer, former pilot and skipper. My country observation place is Lat 48.067 N, Long 4.133 E, that is in Southern Champagne, France. Have a 118mm telescope I use with my son Charles, 14, for Moon and Jupiter satellites observations. I published my Echo balloon satellite obs in 1960 in the monthly revue of Societe Astronomique de France. On August 24, 2000, we were my son and I plus a friend of him, observing planets at approx 02:25 UTC. Coming up from the South to near zenith, Charles first saw THREE satellite like bright objects, flying as an isocele triangle, sharp angle forward. Height of triangle : about 2 degrees. Sky visible inside the triangle with binoculars. Constant lights mag -2. Disappeared N-NE behind trees. Similar observation of three objects made by hundreds people in Paris beginning (10 th ?) of August when watching outdoor movie inside City of Science. Read that ESA CLUSTER project to launch 4 satellites scheduled to fly together during two years. We saw "only" three spatial objects flying together. Were was the fourth ? Has anybody an idea of what we saw that night ? Thanks and rgds. Patrick patricjl@club-internet.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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