Over nine moonlit evenings this month, from the Austin metropolitan area I've been able to observe, without magnification, a total of 75 LEO satellites (including a few single flashes; several seen on more than one evening). I've made up a Web page about these observations. The point is simply to provide an example of how many objects may be seen without magnification even when conditions are less than ideal. Here's the URL: http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/75seen.htm About three months ago I made a very similar report of 41 objects seen in six (winter) nights: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Mar-2002/0012.html A number of objects (e.g., Atlas Centaur 2, 00694) appear on both of these pages. On the same evenings many more satellites were seen with 10x50 binoculars, and on some of them some more objects were seen through Mike McCants' 8-inch (203mm) dobsonian telescope. 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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