>I just joined your list ... sounds fun! Welcome! >I was wondering if someone out there could help me out [...] It couldn't have been the ISS. I used h-a to check. I started by selecting albuquerque NM, clicking iss, clicking orbit, clicking "passes (all)" clicking "prev" to go back in time. Already I can see there are no passes (even invisible dark passes). But then I clicked on the nearest (just after midnight on Nov 3, then I subtracted .063 for each pass (tle shows 15.7 passes per day so I did 1/x) and edited the date in the URL. As you go back a pass or two you can see that there won't be anything near NM. >it seemed to linger too long for an Iridium flash (and was too bright). You might be right about lingering - they tend to only be brighter than jupiter for maybe 5 seconds but they can certainly be much much brighter than the ISS. About 50X brighter. You may have never seen a -8 iridium flash but they are quite spectacular. Can we get more information? there were thousands of satellites in the sky at 5:15. How close to south do you think you were looking? When you say it moved north and east it is better to say "up, down, left, right". Are you saying slightly up maybe and definitely to the left? How long was it bright? 10 seconds? 2 minutes? When you say 5:15 local what time zone was your watch in (pacific?)? It should be an 8 hour difference (not 7) unless you hadn't changed your watch (that was the day we changed the clocks - sunday) or if you were on mountain time. How many hands above the horizon would you say it was (where each hand is about 10 degrees)? - George Roberts http://gr5.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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