Jan. 27, 2002 Interesting night for Unids, first while waiting for another satellite I picked up a slow mover and thought that I'd spotted a "real" Unid moving through Taurus and was able to record three points. It turned out to be TDRS 8 Centaur Rocket, my points, (adjusted at 20 secs early) matched a four day old elset, one point below 26389 just in case the boys at goddard need help :-) It appeared near 7.5 magnitude indicating a standard mag near 4.5. The second Unid is likely three geese flying abreast. They appeared as a blurred spot with a halo of diameter 10 arcminutes for each, moving abreast they took up one third or thirty arcminutes of my one degree FOV. Not satellites, and if they were aircraft they were running without lights as I tracked them for about five to ten seconds. I've got a time and position if anyone is interested; they were moving N to S along a trajectory parallel to another satellite I was unable to acquire. Anyone else catch geese in a telescope??? I've seen them naked eye and through binocs at night but never in a scope, an interesting sight. I took a look at Jason 1 DPAF a.k.a. Delta 2 debris, 27000, running about a sec early on latest. Standard Mag near 7.0 . Observed from 30d elev in north to shadow entry over a minute and a half. 26389 00 034B 8835 G 20020127004843810 37 25 0428573+160128 68 S+070 10 27000 01 055D 8835 G 20020127021236080 37 25 2221340+790147 28 S+065 10 PPAS 00 -34 B 2002-01-27 00:49:23 JN 82 .2 00 00.0 7.5->7.5, S 01 -55 D 2002-01-27 02:14:10 JN 93 .2 00 00.0 7.0->7.0, S Clear and Dark Skies----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Nix | Midtown Memphis #8835 35.1477N 90.0135W 75m | Lim Mag 10.6, Clear & Cold, Full moon --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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