Jonathan T Wojack wrote: > Saw Lacrosse 2 @ mag. 2.5 @ 00:35 UT, 03-28-2001 in the NorthEast. At > the same time, a bright (+1) satelllite appeared in the East at about 50 > degrees in elevation. 10-15 seconds after sighting it, the satellite > disappeared. Unfortunately, I cannot identify it. Can anyone help? I was running a star party for 3d graders at a school near here. Members of my STAR astronomy and Mensa clubs had scopes set up helping me. I had made predictions and was showing 100 people this very same Lacrosse pass. Lots of oohs and ahs. In the middle of the Lacrosse pass moving left, I had predictions of an Iridium 54 flare moving right. It faded because it was just a flare, not its regular brightness. Here is that prediction: Site name: NJ. Iridflar v2.1 Latitude: 40.28083 Longitude: -74.60000 Altitude: 140.0 ft Time Zone: UTC -5.0 h Local Local Iridium Sun Flare Max Flare Ird Day Date Time Azm El Rnge N I Azm Elv MMA Mag Bearing # ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tue 2001- 3-27 19:34:31 126 58 562 D L 287 -14 R -2 15.2 mi W 54 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Saw the Cosmos 2278 Rocket @ mag. 3.2. I wanted to show this to the crowd also, but lights around the edge of the field kept us from spotting it. -- Jay Respler -- JRespler@superlink.net SKY VIEWS: http://mars.superlink.net/jrespler/skyviews.htm Satellite Tracker * Early Typewriter Collector Freehold, New Jersey ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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