> The other night, July 27 0910:20 UTC, I was randomly scanning the NE sky > with my 9x63 binoculars. I picked up a very dim, slow-moving satellite, > which I (in my inexperience and ignorance of any nearby constellations) > estimated to be maybe mag 7-8 or so. The only match I can find with > alldat.tle, and FindSat + Virtual Sky (for direction) is GPS 2-17 r2 > (22277). Its range was about 7500km, H-A mag 9.9, the sky was quite > clear (haze-wise) and not light-polluted (but not completely cold > either). Could I have seen something this dim and distant? > I guess you could (I have neither tried nor accidentally found a GPS r2). I wish to repeat (stubbornly!) my hint for identifying UNID's : Hold your binoculars steady and count (or measure) the time it takes to cross the Field-Of-View, and the direction (using the face of a clock or local horizon and angle - 12h or 0 degrees up, 3h or 90 degrees to the right - as reference) This could also have helped identifying the northbound "double flash" as a distant Molniya. -- bjorn.gimle@tietotech.se (office) -- -- b_gimle@algonet.se (home) http://www.algonet.se/~b_gimle -- -- COSPAR 5919, MALMA, 59.2576 N, 18.6172 E, 23 m -- -- COSPAR 5918, HAMMARBY, 59.2985 N, 18.1045 E, 44 m -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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