That satellite (or alien battle cruiser!!) I was tracking Ron came into my view at 02:10am (making the date the 20th). It rose near enough to vertically from the horizon and passed just to the side of the Jewel Box in the view of my 13mm Hyperion, ie 68° field of view at 115x. It was quite faint even in my 12" dob, and it was taking over a minute to pass through the field of view. I tracked it for a number of minutes and it had still only climbed to the same altitude as Beta Centauri. So far my efforts in attempting to ID this object have not been successful. Anyone with any suggestions please let me know.
Jeanette you know we all wish you the very best with your op, I'm sure it will go well, and we all look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible afterwards (when you get home from the hospital will be ok, no need to rush)
You should also rest assurred that there will be a myriad of scopes at Astrofest available to you Jeanette - if you need a scope to do some imaging through come see me, the 12" Star Cannon will be at your disposal.
As an aside: your recent info re the various symptoms of bowel cancer has prompted me, I am going to be seeing my doc in the very near future to have things "checked".
I don't want to do this, I'm not looking forward to it - but I am going to do it!
The only upside I can think of at present is that once it's done I can honestly say that when I have a pain in the ass I'll be thinking of you!
