At 11:23 24-01-01 +0100, you wrote: > "I was at heavens-above.com today, and was looking at predictions for a > NOSS satelllite (NOSS 2-2 (D), to be specific). However, its predicted > magnitude was +6 to +8. Isn't that much fainter than what the observers > on this list report? I recall observers mentioning that they frequently > see the NOSS satellites at naked-eye. Maybe I'm confused; or > heavens-above.com's magnitude estimate is too faint?" > > I confirm we were three observers on August 24, 2000 02:23 UTC located at > 48.067 N, 04.133 E, to see naked-eyes NOSS 2-2 Trio as bright as est. mag + > 2. > We were not at all expecting it, as concentrated on Jupiter sats. But NOSS > Trio crossed so high and was so bright, you just could not avoid seeing it. > > Patrick J. Lumiot > Here are two pictures of a NOSS cluster which have been photographed by me some years ago. This was a very bright pass: http://gallery.uunet.be/tcools/satimage/images/91076bcd.jpg and http://gallery.uunet.be/tcools/satimage/images/9176bcd2.JPG Bjoern Gimle did some studies about this transit. You can find it at: http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle/NOSScool.htm The first picture has also been published in 'Spaceflight' magazine last year. Greetings, Tristan Cools tcools@village.uunet.be Belgian Working Group Satellites(BWGS) Damse Vaart: 3.2478E/51.2277N - OBS place 1 Ryckevelde: 3.2856E/51.2045N - OBS place 2 Brugge: 3.2166E/51.2104N - OBS place 3(home) http://gallery.uunet.be/tcools/satimage/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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