flaring geosats

From: Ed Cannon (edcannonsat@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - 18:23:21 EDT

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    Last night (Monday evening, 1 October local time) I saw 8 or
    9 flaring geosats with my binoculars, including two to four
    that were easy to see with my 8x42.  At 3:14 UTC, there were
    two bright ones 45 degrees (3 hours of RA) apart, one in the
    eclipse-entry area, and the other near the meridian.  Of 
    course Mike found some more, fainter ones, with his telescope.
    We concluded the session pretty early due to interfering 
    clouds.
    
    Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA
    
    
    
           
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