Did anyone see the -8 iridum flare pass by M31 tonight (20040914) - absoloutley spectacular!! I got an image of it but it's on slide film (sorry but I haven't caught up with you 300D guys yet) so it will be a while before I get it developed.

Also while out I saw 3 UFOs!! No I haven't gone lala to me they were unidentifed objects. They looked like 3 mag 4.5 stars forming an equilateral triangle about 5 deg wide moving as a group. Saw them first around alpha and gamma Aquairii and they moved toward Fomallhalt. I looked away to make sure that my eyes weren't plaing tricks but when I looked back I picked them up again.

DaveG

Don't the yanks have three spy satellites that pass as you discribed....can't remember the name :roll:

Looked it up on the web try NOSS Satellites. (Naval Ocean Surveillance System) www.eclipsetours.com/sat/class.html

Maybe heavens above can confirm?

Also while out I saw 3 UFOs!! No I haven't gone lala to me they were unidentifed objects. They looked like 3 mag 4.5 stars forming an equilateral triangle about 5 deg wide moving as a group. Saw them first around alpha and gamma Aquairii and they moved toward Fomallhalt. I looked away to make sure that my eyes weren't plaing tricks but when I looked back I picked them up again.DaveG

Dave,

You saw one of the NOSS triplets, which are US spy satellites in a triangular formation. You can get predictions on www.heavensabove.com

Gordon

www.heavens-above.com/

Did anyone see the -8 iridum flare pass by M31 tonight (20040914) - absoloutley spectacular!!

Dave, from what location did you see the Iridium flare? The visibility and magnitude of Iridium flares are highly dependent on the viewer's location - your -8 flare was probably invisible to anyone more than 50km from where you were.

Not particulaliry effective spy planes if you get their predicted fly over times off the web??

What were they doing, spying on Dave Gs deep space tracking center. :wink:

Paul

The -8 was visible from my house about 4miles SW of Birr.

Gordon

Thanks for that I thought that I'd watched Close Encounters one too many times!

Dave

It's OK my cloaking device was activated that night!

DaveG