Tonight I went out and enjoyed the night sky as I gazed through my night scope. It was about 10:42 PM local time when I saw two satellites moving northward diverging from the head of Scorpius. As I followed them, seconds later a very faint very slowing moving speck of light came in from the right moving eastward. I found that if I held the scope still I could see objects moving that I would have otherwise missed. Then another satellite came in from another direction. Excited, I began scanning the sky and found another and another! Quite fun I must say. I really enjoy the night scope view and seeing all those objects in orbit makes it really neat. I believe the first object was Cosmos 1674 R/B. Clear skies, Tom Iowa USA + + + P.S. Does anyone know who it was that said (in the 1900s?) that there was no propellant strong enough to hurl an object into orbit? As I recall he said that dynamite couldn't do it and at the time that was the most powerful "propellant" known. ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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