Probably a NOSS triplet. Could you give lat/lon please? And what date was this? I assume it was last night so it would be 10/6/2010 2:05AM UT? And is Colorado Springs in Colorado or is there another one? I guess you don't need to include that info if you give us lat/lon. Now even with all that info, there will be thousands of satellites within 10 seconds of that time visible. So if you could narrow it down to a smaller part of the sky? Say within 40 degrees of a particular star and give us RA, Dec that would be helpful. If you do the work to supply this in a concise list, you are more likely to get an answer. Did you check heavens-above.com? Just a quick check shows NOSS 2-2e at max elevation angle at 8:02pm. H-A has the other 2 sats (NOSS 2-2C, NOSS 2-2D) 10 minutes earlier but those might have the wrong orbital elements: http://www.heavens-above.com/allsats.asp?lat=38.834&lng=-104.821&alt=1829&loc=Colorado+Springs&TZ=MST&Date=40457.0208333333&Mag=4.9 Was the path like this? http://www.heavens-above.com/PassDetails.asp?Size=600&SatID=21809&lat=38.834&lng=-104.821&alt=1829&loc=Colorado+Springs&TZ=MST&Date=40457.0852577797 The above path goes west to east (as do 99% of satellites). Could it have been southwest to northeast? - George Roberts http://gr5.org -------------------------------------------------- From: "JULIAN TOPOLSKI" <jjt99@msn.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 1:04 PM To: <seesat-l@satobs.org> Subject: 3 Satellites, right in a row > > I observed three satellites around 8:05 PM MDT from near Colorado Springs. > They were in a line, the leading object was very faint but the two > following it were fairly bright. Path was roughly from Southeast to > Northwest. I was trying to observe Comet Hartley near Casseopia when thes > eobjects came into view of my binoculars. I never found the comet but can > anyone ID thes eobjects? > > Thanks > > JJT > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20101006/700b4887/attachment.html > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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