Mornin'... <yawn>, Saw TiPS around 3:12UTC this morning, catching it as it left the earth shadow near a post-zenith position in Perseus. Starting with a faint blurry spot, it gave me a brief glint, followed by what I can only describe as an irregular flutter of sorts of the tether, followed by another glint about three seconds after the first, back to the blurry spot for a moment, and then a strong simultaneous glint around +5 or +4.5 from both Ralph and Norton for almost ten seconds, revealing how they traveled side by side until I lost them in the vicinity of Polaris. What a show. Absolutely wonderful; I just love this thing. :) Starshine 3, scheduled for a pass ~20 minutes later, was a complete non-obs. I keep having bad luck with Starshines. Tricky birds they are... CU! Markus (E8.7434, N51.7264, 113m, MEST) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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