Richard: Have you tried heavens above:
http://www.heavens-above.com/ You just need to input your location and then there is a place to look for Iridium satellites (can do it for the next 10 days or for the last 24 hours). I have seen back-to-back satellites, but never two at once. Larry On Mon, November 10, 2008 7:39 pm, richard rumble wrote: > > > At 6:05 pm PST I was heading out to my car... when I saw TWO bright stars > in the sky that have NOT been there previously. Now, I do educational > programs for ele. schools with a portable planetarium as well as host > star parties for the schools. I am pretty familiar with the night sky, > and since I was just out with the telescopes on FRI.. and neither of > those two stars were in that location... Im pretty sure that they were > not stars. > > Both were about the same magnitude as Jupiter... both were just above > Fomalhaut.. in about the same locations as 88 and 89 Aquarii. They were > stationary and did not move as they faded out, much like a Satellite.. > except that both dimmed together and neither moved. > > My only two thoughts are perhaps I managed to catch TWO geo-stationary > satellites as they slowly rotated and FLASHED me at the same time.... Or > TWO stars going supernova at the same time.... > > > Anyone here able to shed some light on this? > > > Richard Rumble > > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list > > ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list [email protected] http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
