Ed Cannon said:
>I had a rare view -- two tumbling objects traveling on nearly parallel >tracks within my binocular field of view.
2 nights ago (at Tulsa2) I saw 2 variable objects naked eye that met at Polaris after parallel path, 10961 (Cosmos 1023) and 11691 (Kosmos-1156), which was a new satellite to me. I agree, that is a great view!
>I saw 30 objects without binoculars... Two of them were the NOSS 3-3 >pair (05-004).
Seen here last night, even in bad conditions, must've been flaring or hit a hole in clouds.
>We were at BCRC (30.315N, 97.866W, 280m), which is not as dark as it >used to be.
Tulsa Astronomy club site (TULSA2), is next to a building where we have a key to turn off the lights. Vandals constantly bother our building and that one, to the point where Jul 2 night the doors were welded shut, and I couldn't turn out the lights. Its always something...but it was still a great night - blocked the lights with my car as best I could.
PPAS later. Also saw a 3 UNID pairs following each other. One was NOSS 2-2 (only C&D, see below), Topex (22076) and one of the Jason satellites, and 25616 (ROCSAT 1) and another, 27.5 behind it. I hate to use the UNID word again, but I can't ID this second one.
08836 76 038D 8335 G 20080702030913360 17 25 1415545+233703 18 S
08836 76 038D 8335 G 20080702030938030 17 25 1501583+443696 28 S
08836 76 038D 8335 G 20080702031000980 17 25 1623349+614174 37 S
21799 91 076C 8335 G 20080702031816860 17 25 1738747-110478 18 S
21799 91 076C 8335 G 20080702031850190 17 25 1807506-023070 37 S
21808 91 076D 8335 G 20080702031859230 17 25 1810169-024902 28 S
28888 05 042A 8335 G 20080702033359960 00 25 1657884+472204 37 S
28888 05 042A 8335 G 20080702033455030 17 25 1646140+665469 67 S
28888 05 042A 8335 G 20080702033505900 17 25 1642440+701487 18 S
28888 05 042A 8335 G 20080702033513630 17 25 1638963+723319 18 S
28888 05 042A 8335 G 20080702033527380 17 25 1631141+762159 18 S
25724 99 023A 8335 G 20080702033734340 17 25 1604253-111548 37 S
25724 99 023A 8335 G 20080702033744880 17 25 1609467-110172 87 S
25724 99 023A 8335 G 20080702033755480 17 25 1614807-104669 18 S
26905 01 040A 8335 G 20080702041138380 17 25 1720165+284746 28 S
26907 01 040C 8335 G 20080702041041230 17 25 1634858+441513 37 S
TULSA2:
COSPAR 8335 +35.831, -96.147 1100 ft
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