(meteorobs) Bright mystery satellite pair spotted during PER observations tonight

Stuart McDaniel actionshooting at carolina.rr.com
Sat Aug 11 22:27:22 EDT 2012


Sounds like the NOSS satellites.




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Stuart McDaniel
Lawndale, NC
Secr.,
Cleve. Co. Astronomical Society

IMCA #9052
Sirius Meteorites

Node35 - Sentinel All Sky

http://spacerocks.weebly.com

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-----Original Message----- 
From: dfischer at astro.uni-bonn.de
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 7:46 PM
To: marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl ; Meteor science and meteor observing
Subject: (meteorobs) Bright mystery satellite pair spotted during PER 
observations tonight

Hi Marco,

while visually observing the Perseids in the night 11/12 August 2012 from
Witten, Germany, latitude 51.4°N, longitude 7.3°E, at 22:35 UTC I noticed
a pair of very bright satellites climbing higher from the SW along the
'neck' of Aquila: they were of equal brightness, at first exceeding
Altair's, but fading simultaneously while leaving Aquila and moving
towards Cygnus in the zenith where they were lost to the naked eye; the
limiting magnitude was about 5.2 mag there. The angular distance between
the two objects remained constant and was roughly the same as between
Alpha and Gamma Aquilae, i.e. 2 to 3 degrees. NEITHER Heavens Above NOR
Calsky list ANY satellite, let alone two satellites, even remotely fitting
these observations!

Any idea what that may have been?

Thanks,

Daniel

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