Do I have the correct Satellite

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On the night of Oct 10th I was observing the eastern sky when I spotted a
satellite traveling from S to NNE.  The object was at about 4th mag and passed
within 2 degrees of Epsilon Cassiopeia at 8:02 PM.  Satspy predicted the
closest sat at that time was  dmsp f14 (usa131)  #24753  and showed that the
position in the sky was about 5 degrees farther to the eastern horizon, about
8 minutes later with a magnitude of about 5.5

46.205 n
93.262 w
238m

My question is, do I have the correct satellite and the prediction is within
tolerance for error, or am making calculations from missing something in my
calculations.  Or did I happen to see the infamous N. Korean submersible sat.

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