Regarding Bev M Ewen-Smith's viewing I also noticed this pair and I am not even close to Bev's location. I noticed a satellite or pair out a window in my home crossing the sky from W about 260° when I saw it and then went outside to see it. It travelled extremely slowly towards the South at ballpark 60° degrees. This satellite may have continued on to Easterly direction as it did not travel towards the horizon but maintained the height. I lost it due to houses at SSE 155° ballpark. First noticed at 9:20 EST or UTC -4 at 45.1856 N -67.2736 W. The magnitude was brighter than the Moon by a number of degrees. I had no constellations as twilight was just ending and there was still sunset glow in the sky as well as an unusually high light pollution (seen later in the night). I went through several collections of possible satellites in my area but none matched the dimensions or the speed. I was not expecting to see such a bright satellite so early out a window and was not prepared. I am confirming Bev M Ewen-Smith's sighting that this satellite was unusual and asking for help identifying it. Jill McDonald Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: > From: Bev M Ewen-Smith via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org> > Date: July 17, 2018 at 12:33:47 PM EDT > To: SeeSat-L_at_satobs.org > Subject: Request for identification > Reply-To: Bev M Ewen-Smith <bmes_at_coaa.co.uk> > > Hi > > Last night I noticed two satellites travelling line astern in a northerly direction very slowly directly through the "keystone" asterism of Hercules. I checked my usual planetarium program with a current elset and nothing matched the observation. Normally everything I can see, shows up. > > Can anyone help identify them? > > Date : 2018-07-16 > Time : 22:11 UTC (+/- a minute) > Mag : 4 (approx) > Observing site : N37° 11.4' W8° 36.0' > Sorry that I didn't have a stopwatch or a camera with me. > > I followed them for some time and they kept together - about 2° apart line astern - so they seemed to be genuinely co-orbital. > > Thanks in advance > Bev > COAA > > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Tue Jul 17 2018 - 15:05:10 UTC
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Tue Jul 17 2018 - 20:05:10 UTC