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Old 08-07-10, 10:12 PM   #7
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Thanks. My neighbor was cooking out side and had their lights on so I cut my time short. I didn't want to bother then and tell them to turn out their lights.

But I did make out the double star Epsilon Lyra. Looked like a long stain in the sky next to Vega but I could just barely make out the separate points of light.

I also saw a meteor (biggest I've seen in a while) and a satellite. The latter shined really brightly for a moment- I guess it was its solar panels reflecting the light. interestingly they crossed paths (from my perspective at least)... makes me wonder if someone was taking a shot at it.

I really hope so that we may be able to post it here would be cool,we can really see the amazing things sometimes,I remember when I saw my first satellites,so far but so fast also,and in the Universe is nothing, to our sun, it takes "only 8 light minutes,it says a lot of the distance we can talk about!
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