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[Jeff Hopkins <phxjeff@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Rick,

I would estimate the first two  (NW to SE) were cose to first 
magnitude, not 3rd. They were very bright. The first one did some 
interesting things just as it entered the Earth's shadow (flashed off 
then on then off).

Jeff

At 22:38 -0700 1/4/06, Rick Tejera wrote:
>Jeff,
>According to Heavens-Above, it looks like the first one was Cosmos 22997
>Rocket booster, reached Mag 3.4 and 72 Deg elevation (from my place =
>anyway).
>Followed 4 minutes later by Helios 1B Rocket booster, Mag 3.3 and 65 Deg =
>max
>elev. Looks like a third passed a bit to the east another 4 minutes =
>later
>and that was Coscmos 2333 Rocket booster, mag 4.0 36 degree max elev. =
>That
>one passed through Auriga.  Still on the 4 minute schedule next came =
>Cosmos
>1315, mag 3.8, passes North to south through the zenith.

>Looks like you had a parade of sats tonight.
>
>Clear Skies
>Rick Tejera
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 10:10 PM
>To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [AZ-Observing] Lovely night
>
>What a lovely night tonight. I got some good UBV photometry data.=20
>Right now the Moon is hanging upside down in the west. Very pretty.
>
>Also, right after sunset I saw two very bright satellites going from NW =
>to
>SE (they were less than 5 minutes apart) and one dimmer one going polar
>orbit south to north. Anyone know what those were?
>
>Jeff

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