Greetings all I watched the Stereo launch via the Internet- quite exciting and followed the various events as they occurred after lift off. I did manage to track something when it appeared above my horizon into my 60-70% clouded sky but at this point I suspect it was the rocket rather than the Stereo satellites. It was about 8th magnitude and appeared to have a slow variability cycle of about 3 minutes when it would brighten 1-2 magnitudes. I followed it out to about 11000 kms when I gave up due to cloud and it being too faint. Later today I will go through the DVD recording as well as the hard drive recording but Im reasonably certain all I had in the field of view etc was the rocket - the Stereo satellites must have been quite a bit fainter and I suspect the seperation of the two would have been too small for me to resolve at the image scale I was using. Anyway Im off to bed now to see if I can get some sleep-twice in the past week Ive been up almost all night - proves that Im mad! Cheers Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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