I am very happy, at around 8:23 UTC aug 13, I saw my first sat going across the moon. The sat was USSPACECOM Catalog No.: 4071 International Designation Code: 1969-070-B or known as cosmos 292 rocket. It happened so quickly and was easy to see. The sat was predicted to be aroung mag +6. It was nice to see the moon lit by earthshine, with a point of light going across it. All I used was a pair of 10*50 binoculars, mounted on a tripod. Thanks to rob's skymap program, I finally saw one. Now when's the next! Thanks to the replies about what scope you use to see geo sats, I need a 8ince scope, luckly I know someone with one. I have to look through it. Kevin Fetter 44.6062 N 75.6910 W 100 m _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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/seesat/seesatindex.html
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