Dont know what I just saw

[George]

21:15pm Stockport UK

Just went outside for a ciggy and to see if there was any chance to get the scope out when I saw 2 very fast moving objects estimate magnitude -6 moving from west to southeast. The smaller lead object was around -1 and was directly leading the brighter object on the same track at the same speed.

My first thought was the ISS but its currently not over the UK so I'm thinking maybe this was a fireball of some sort, I'm sick I dint have a cam handy

What did I see?

[SteveL]

It was the ATV (leading) and ISS (trailing). Not sure where you got your "not over the UK" info.

Pass Details

Date: Monday, 31 March, 2008

Satellite: ISS

Observer's Location: Cambridge ( 52.2050°N, 0.1440°E)

Local Time: British Summer Time (GMT + 1:00)

Orbit: 339 x 340 km, 51.6° (Epoch 31 Mar)

Sun altitude at time of

maximum pass altitude: -15.3°

Event Time Altitude Azimuth Distance (km)

Rises above horizon 21:07:52 0° 256° (WSW) 2,122

Reaches 10° altitude 21:09:51 10° 254° (WSW) 1,289

Maximum altitude 21:12:43 71° 168° (SSE) 365

Enters shadow 21:13:23 46° 102° (ESE) 466

[George]

blumming hell !!! was looking at NASA's and obviously US time.....what a plank

Still......was an amazing site

[themos]

We were all outside looking for them and at them! A great sight, it must be awfully hard to catch a photo.

[Andrew*]

damn! damn! damn! Totally didn't know about this :x Really really wanted to see it

Andrew

[SteveL]

You`ll get another two chances tomorrow evening, but the second pass gets cut short by the earth's shadow

1 Apr -1.9 19:57:01 10 SW 19:59:46 45 SSE 20:02:32 10 E

1 Apr -2.5 21:31:50 10 W 21:34:41 82 SSW 21:34:41 82 SSW

[Andrew*]

Better remember!

Thanks!

Andrew

[jgs001]

I caught last nights pass on sensor... see this thread http://stargazerslounge.com/index.php/topic,25073.msg255590.html#msg255590