Last night (early January 18 UTC) I was watching ETS 7 (25064, 97-74B -- not ETS 6) at one-power (about +3) and noticed that it was going towards the Moon. As it kept going in the right direction and drawing closer, I switched to binoculars and watched it disappear into the glare just above the Moon and reappear just below it. As best as I could tell it almost perfectly bisected the Moon, but all of that moonlight (and also perhaps the effect of some very thin, high cloud) made the artificial satellite invisible to me as it actually made the transit. Milstar 3 Centaur (25725, 99-23B) went very close to the Moon, just south of it by maybe 1/8 degree or even less. I had been watching it also at one-power (maxima in the +2.5 to +3.0 range), but it also, at its closest approach to the Moon, was overpowered by the moonlight, even using my 10x50s. The observing location was close to 30.3068N, 97.7267W, 150m (grounds of Elizabet Ney museum). Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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