At 13:12 10/09/01 , Glenn Yarbrough wrote: >I just went out tonight at 10:35pm Eastern, and observed an object to my >East-Northeast. (I live in Kill Devil Hills, NC). This object was about 10 >degrees or so above the horizon, seemed nearly stationary, but possibly >moving very slowly from north to south, from my vantage point. This object >seemed to be flashing colors, in sequence, red blue green, or maybe one of >the colors was yellow. Not sure. In any case, I am very new to sat >observation, and don't have a program to do predictions with. Can anyone >educate me as to what I saw? If not a sat, what? Planet? I think Glenn saw capella as it was rising. All the first magnitude stars show twinkling in different colours close to the horizon. I have sent him a longer private reply. Tony Beresford ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/sat/seesat/seesatindex.html
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