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Old 10-08-2011, 07:46 PM
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Managed to locate Saturn and OMG! Loving this new hobby of mine. Could make out 5 (maybe 6) moons. Not sure because I could clearly see 6 star like objects around it though in stellarium one of them doesnt have a name it just says HIP 62733 when I click on it so not sure if that is one of its moons or not. Oh and while I was watching Saturn I saw what looked like a satellite fly past from left of my view to the right and just above Saturn. So im guessing that is actually right to left and below it? It happened about 15 minutes ago about 7:15 though when I ran inside to see what it was there was nothing on Stellarium.

Oh and one more thing, while waiting for it to get dark enough to see Saturn I saw the ISS pass over head. Magnificent!
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