At 02:50 AM 9/07/2008, Michael Boschat wrote: >Hello: > >Last night I saw 2 satellites close together in 7x50 binoculars >passing by Epsilon >Bootis. Just wondering if anyone knows what they were? > >Date: July 7/8, 2008 >UT: approx: 0038-0040 >Place: Halifax, Nova Scotia,Canada >Lat: N44d 39' >Long: W63d 36' > >One satellite was about 3rd mag the other maybe near 4th. They were >less than 1 degree >apart just a bit more than Alpha and Beta Sagitta and moving >simultaneously together NNW-SSW. Mike, using findsat and Eps Bootis' position with a generous allowance in time (120 sec.) and offset ( 5 degrees) couldnt find any hits that made any sense from either spacetrack or Classfd.tle. In particular none of the suspects were paired up in time so if it was a coincidental pairing from different launches I saw no sign of it. None of the 3rd generation NOSS were anywhere near Eps Boo that night, I checked out all 4 pairs on H-A . Also the paths of the recent orcom launch clutch was not consistent with your observation. How near was the closest approach to Eps Boo? Tony Beresford ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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