(Ed Cannon) wrote in message ...
Well, another NOSS sightings report. ... But wait a minute!!!
There are only two! What happened to the "leader" of last
night's pass?

I had a very similar NOSS 2-3 pass last night. The outlier
was brightest and was not too hard to see without binoculars;
the trailer (the one that follows the leader) was difficult
to see without magnification. But I could only see the
leader with my 10x50s; it was significantly fainter than the
trailer.

I understand your post to mean that there is normally only 2 of
these objects travelling together because you refer to them as
the "leader" and the "follower". The previous night I viewed an
array of 3 travelling in a triangular formation. The "Heavens-
Above" site gives information about 3 objects that travel
together (they being NOSS 2-3 (C),(D), and (E). My sighting of
two of them last night was of a "vertical" alignment ie.. one
travelling above the other (relative to my view of course).
There was no leader or follower. They both would arrive at a
particular reference point (star) at the same time. All of my
views have been with 10x50 binoculars.
Thanks for the response. I intend to see them as often as I can
and will report here when I do (yeah - I know - who cares lol)!
TONY