> I was running a star party for 3d graders at a school near here. > Members of my > STAR astronomy and Mensa clubs had scopes set up helping me. I had > made > predictions and was showing 100 people this very same Lacrosse pass. > Lots of > oohs and ahs. In the middle of the Lacrosse pass moving left, I had > predictions > of an Iridium 54 flare moving right. It faded because it was just a > flare, not > its regular brightness. Here is that prediction: Personally, I liked the Iridium 54 pass (+1) better than the Lacrosse 2 pass (+2.5). A 2.5 magnitude pass isn't all that great naked-eye when your LM is ~+3.2. > > Saw the Cosmos 2278 Rocket @ mag. 3.2. It looked great is 7x35's! ------------------------------ Jonathan T. Wojack tlj18@juno.com 39.706d N 75.683d W 5 hours behind UT (-5) ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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