This morning's observation was visually nicer than yesterday. Again I picked the procession up as it exited Earth's shadow around azimuth 19-20 degrees and elevation 9 degrees. The satellites were moving northeasterly over the USA but for my pass they moved right and down. Time was 1135 UT on 5 March 2021. The first object I saw was ahead of the main group by a degree or so. Then the main group appeared. I mentally counted passage by a foreground tree and they took about 15 seconds to all pass by. I may have been able to count them separately but it was that or get an feel for the length of the train. Magnitude was around 3.5 to 4.5. Limiting useful magnitude using 7x50 binoculars was about 5.2 to 5.5. The conditions were degraded possibly due to the waning moon and the recent (a few hours) clearing after a cold front (snow system) passage. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Fri Mar 05 2021 - 05:58:41 UTC
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