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/ Well, another NOSS sightings report. I looked up the sighting predictions for the 3 NOSS satellites that I viewed last evening and they were scheduled to be visible again this evening from my location here in Las Vegas, Nevada. I couldn't wait. Right on schedule, here they come out of the Northwestern sky headed to the South. But wait a minute!!! There are only two! What happened to the "leader" of last night's pass? The (apparently) 2 trailing objects were in perfect vertical alignment (relative to my view) but there was no visible satellite out in front as there was yesterday. I watched them for about 7 minutes, from 2209 to 2216 PDT. They passed right below Arcturus (to the West of) and later passed over Antares on their way to the SSE and out of sight. The visible mag of the 2 objects were at least 1 mag difference (possibly a little more). Yesterday all 3 objects seemed equal in magnitude to me. These are indeed interesting objects (at least to me)! I know that the 3rd object muct to have been there but was just not visible however it really seemed like only the 2 of them, having left their companion somewhere. I am looking forward to seeing more of these guys and watching their "changes" if any. I went to "Heavens-Above" for the pass onfo and it seems from the times listed that I saw NOSS 2-3 (C)&(E). Eyes-UP! (((disregard heading email address))) email: Tony |
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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. Note that on most passes throughout the year they are much fainter and can be difficult to find with 10x50s. I have found that the southbound evening passes during our summer tend to be the brightest, and I recently saw a report of a similarly bright northbound morning pass (maybe in the southern hemisphere?). Ed Cannon - - Austin, Texas, USA |
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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. Note that on most passes throughout the year they are much fainter and can be difficult to find with 10x50s. I have found that the southbound evening passes during our summer tend to be the brightest, and I recently saw a report of a similarly bright northbound morning pass (maybe in the southern hemisphere?). Ed Cannon - - Austin, Texas, USA |
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Okay, I think I finally saw a NOSS trio for the first time! Well,
I must have, because what else has three satellites moving together. But I had assumed that they would form a small equilateral triangle. Instead, what I saw was: * * * Is that really what they look like? Patty |
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Okay, I think I finally saw a NOSS trio for the first time! Well,
I must have, because what else has three satellites moving together. But I had assumed that they would form a small equilateral triangle. Instead, what I saw was: * * * Is that really what they look like? Patty |
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Okay, I think I finally saw a NOSS trio for the first time! ... I had assumed that they would form a small equilateral triangle. Instead, what I saw was: * * * I think the only way to see the triangle's actual shape is when they are straight up. Otherwise, there are perspective effects involved, although they're not too big until a triangle gets down low in the sky. On one pass low in the north, I saw one of the trios as almost perfectly three in line. Also, the three triangles are not the same shape. I think it's NOSS 2-2 that's the other way, with two side-by-side in front and the third one much farther behind -- a larger, flatter triangle than 2-1 or 2-3. Ed Cannon - - Austin, Texas, USA |
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