With the sky much improved from last night, so that I could see several stars of Taurus without magnification, I made the best search I could with my handheld 10x50 binoculars for AMS 4 (DMSP F4 or B5D1-4; 79-050A, 11389), from minus six to plus eight or nine minutes. It was predicted to pass very near Aldebaran, an easy place to look. With handheld binocs, I had to take a few seconds break every 45 seconds to a minute or so. My main problem was that I didn't know on which side of the track to look if it was early or late, so I was sweeping a lot from east to west (down to up) around Aldebaran and Saturn. Venus and Jupiter so close together were very impressive! Also a few minutes earlier on the Moon's side of the sky saw a very nice +2 Perseid. 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://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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