Last night was a pretty good one in spite of the moonlight. Using only my handheld 10x50 binoculars, I was able to see at least a dozen geosats. I focused on two areas, one around RA 23:40 to 00:20 (2000), the theoretical flaring area, and the other from about RA 20:30 to 21:30, where I've seen some others hours before shadow entry. I haven't yet had time to ID them, but no doubt they were mostly the usual suspects I've reported before. The highlight was that I saw three at once in the FOV during the period of about 2:03-07 Sept 29 UTC, within a box that was roughly RA 00:00-00:20, Dec -4 to -9 (2000). Location was 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Even if the weather continues to cooperate, with the Moon around full for the next several nights, it's going to get a little tougher. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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