Thanks to Ron Lee's Post Launch Envisat elset post i checked and saw that it would come out of shadow to the NW of my location. Since the Moon was up and the sky was hazy i used 10x50's. With my hands busy i couldn't check my watch but shortly after 06:31:12 1 Mar UTC, coming out of shadow time, i spotted a moving object in the expected direction, Az 320 El 20 deg heading to Az 339. It had an orange tint to it and i can't estimate the magnitude of it but it was easily seen with my binocs despite the sky conditions. I don't know if it was the Envisat itself or the rocket but i didn't see any object leading or trailing it but it was the object with these elsets: UNK 785 x 766 km 1 27386U 02009A 02060.12060913 -.00000044 00000-0 00000-0 0 10 2 27386 98.5327 128.7390 0013202 261.6647 98.2927 14.34878788 18 Iridium A and Envisat in one night. Woo Hoo. 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://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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