This is just to ask for clarification on what part of the event I saw. At 4:15 UTC it was about twice the size of the full Moon and generally circular. I'm not good at all at estimating the magnitude of an extended object like that, but it was very easy to see without any magnification, and the sky was not very dark either, although it was darker than BCRC so may have been limiting magnitude of about +5, perhaps. About two minutes later it had grown in size to several degrees in length and not quite as wide, and it was still easy to see without binoculars (which I had left at home!) until it went above/behind the north-to-south cirrus cloud band that stretched from horizon to horizon and was replicated over and over to the east. Anyway, using what Cees B. posted for the on-time launch: Event 84001 ====================== Launch 02:44:00 MECO-2 04:02:11 MMS-4 sep 04:16:11 MMS-3 sep 04:21:11 MMS-2 sep 04:26:11 MMS-1 sep 04:31:11 it seems that I saw something that occurred after MECO-2 and right around the time of "MMS-4 sep", if those events occurred on time per that schedule. At that time the predicted range was about 2,300 miles (3,680 km). (I goofed in my post last night as to the range.) Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Fri Mar 13 2015 - 13:00:37 UTC
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