I had my second flare from the new Iridium sats launched recently, this time it was Iridium D 27375 02005D and it flared at it's predicted time of 04:30:42 3 Mar UTC +/- 3sec.Az 009deg El 19deg. Mag 0 vice the predicted Mag 1. It was quite bright down low in the haze and a bit of light pollution. At 05:22:40 Envisat Ariane 5 r was sceduled to become sunlit just below Polaris so a few moments before it's time i went out and brought my 10x50s to bear in the area where it was expected to be when to my surprise a NOSS trio was right there in my FOV. It turned out to be the Noss 2-2 trio so i followed them until they went behind my house and then looked for Envisat 5 r. I found it but it was very faint, Skymap gave me a magnitude of 9.6, the NOSS trio were much brighter. Several minutes later Envisat was due to arrive but even though i knew where it would be, i couldn't find it. I saw a couple of other faint sats during my search, going the wrong way but no Envisat, Skymap gave it a mag of 9.7 during it's pass. Still i had a good viewing session. 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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