Greetings, I was able to observe three of the new Globalstar satellites last night at about 8:39:00 pm. CDT (US). Even in strong Moon light, all three were easily visible in binoculars. While watching, I saw them all brighten up slightly in a deep golden color. I am unable to really give a accurate magnitude estimation. I was in my front yard, facing West, using my 7x50 binoculars. I could see all three in the binocular eyepiece field of view. They were in a line with Object A leading followed by Object C about 2° directly behind A and Object B about 3° behind C, they all passed about 5° to the left of the star 17-Zeta Aquilae, which from my view is about 12° to the lower right of Altair (53-Alpha Aquilae). Elements obtained from Space-Track about 1 hours prior to observation. 37188 2010-054A Object A 37189 2010-054B OBJECT B 37190 2010-054C OBJECT C I am hoping the clouds will part tonight as all 6 will be moving under the star to the lower left of Vega, as seen from my front yard about 8:47:30 pm. CDT (US). My location: 30:29:07.3 N -89:00:09.7 W 7x50 binoculars. Bill -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/private/seesat-l/attachments/20101020/1ae5aafe/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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