Ted... Thanks for filling in the details! The longest stretch of continuous observation through 7X35 binoculars was about two minutes. I picked up the probe in the binoculars ( before culmination), made a quick switch to the eye glasses to see if I could make out the probe unaided, and then went right back on the binoculars. I stayed on the binoculars to see if I could detect any subtle changes in brightness, as a vehicle shaped like the Phobos-Grunt probe could tumble without a lot of variation in brightness. I thought I caught a bit of a flare at one point as the vehicle passed a tree trunk when it was rather low, but that could have been an illusion created by the contrast of the dark trunk against a brightening sky. I lost the vehicle rather low in the trees, about due south of my location... Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20111112/1c1ed432/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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