After trying unsuccessfully to see SCD 2, when I lowered my binoculars something caught my eye. There was Mars, and there was a "star" almost as bright as Mars below it, in the direction of Fomalhaut, and below and right of that -2.0 "star" there was another one about zero magnitude! That was at about 1:15:07 Oct 17 UTC. They were moving slowly downwards, and within 10-20 seconds faded down to more normal magnitudes. They were USA 160 A and C (26907, 26905; 01-040C and A). Five or so minutes earlier I had seen them in the NNW with my binoculars, maybe +5 or +5.5 then. The -2 one was C, and I wonder if I had looked there a minute or so sooner if A might have been the brighter and then faded while C brightened to what I saw. I clicked when one of them (forgot which one) passed near Fomalhaut, at about 1:16:36. Site was E. Ney Museum grounds, 30.307N, 97.727W, 150m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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