This could have been an airplane or something else, but while watching for Tiangong-1 and Shenzhou-8 just now, we failed to see Tiangong-1 on the Heavens Above prediction due, probably, to haze. But about two minutes later, a brightly flashing something followed along very close to the Tiangong trajectory. From our position, 29.5481°N, 98.5580°W, it passed under Polaris at about 2011-11-02T11:44:28Z. The flashes were in a somewhat complicated pattern and occurred several times a second. The brightest in the pattern were much brighter than Polaris, similar to an airplane's navigation lights. I can't rule out that it actually was an airplane, but the pattern of flashes was more complex than I've seen before, and the path certainly followed that of Tiangong-1 at about the right speed. _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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