With the below elsets i had a favourable pass by both new Iridium objects. At 07:04:00 21 June UTC Payload B was spotted using my 10x50s as it passed to the right (E) of lower stars of Cassiopeia. Az 40 deg El 25 deg. It was easily seen however Payload A was predicted to follow along a couple of minutes later and only 2 deg higher but it was not seen. My binocs have a FOV of 5.5deg and i had them centered on the reference star but nothing came along. I started looking several minutes before Payload B and several minutes after A but only 1 object was seen, the predicted first object, Payload B. PAYLOAD A 1 27450U 02031A 02171.59055805 -.04143569 00000-0 -78256+0 0 28 2 27450 86.5945 87.0873 0007380 75.9620 284.2964 14.69123750 22 PAYLOAD B 1 27451U 02031B 02171.65858206 -.00045517 00000-0 -76788-2 0 45 2 27451 86.5840 87.0352 0006399 37.7060 322.4608 14.69866855 33 Jari 49.40N 125.00W 30m ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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/sat/seesat/seesatindex.html
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