Hello. I am a new person in this group. I've been using the Heaven's Above website (for about 2 yrs) to monitor sat passes. I live in Aloha, Oregon, at 45N30, 122W50, approx. On Tuesday, October 5th, I was observing the pass of LaCrosse-4, at 1219 UTC. As the sat nearly eclipsed Polaris, I caught the glint of another sat, very bright, moving nearly exactly West-East. Magnitude estimated at 1 or even 0 but not brighter, compared to the stars in constellations Orion and Big Dipper. The sat was passing directly overhead (85-90 degrees altitude), moving from west to east. It had to come out of the Earth's shadow as it as moving from west to east. The apparent paths of this sat and LaCrosse-4 would have crossed in the sky, and I did not notice it when LaCrosse-4 came out of the Earth shadow. Weather was cold, and the sky was unusually clear for observing. Also, commercial aircraft do not move from due West to due East in this part of the country. The sat did not appear on the list of observables generated by Heaven's Above. Color was incredibly pure white, with just a hint of blue. I followed it visually into the East, until it was lost in the trees. Is this enough to go on? If not, I'll offer whatever else I can. Many thanx. One more thing: LaCrosse-4 was blinking erratically and quickly, from what I could observe. Several times per second for less than a second, then nothing, then resume several times per second for less than a second. LarryC ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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