Could it have been 78- 95 A, also a Molniya? March 12 I saw it with a period of 5.3 sec; as did several others. As every second flash is fainter than the first, we have a period of 10.6 for the brighter flashes. Greetings Leo Barhorst Ed Cannon wrote in part: Tuesday night just before midnight local time, while looking for one more flash from geosynch flasher ASC 1 (15994, 85-76C), I saw another object in the vicinity. It was moving northwards slowly, flashing to about +5.5 with a period of roughly 10.5 seconds. However, the flashes soon disappeared, and I assumed it entered the Earth's shadow. A check with alldat.tle did not yield any obvious candidates. Wednesday night just before midnight local time, Mike McCants and I both were scanning the same sky area with binoculars and saw a few flashes from a slow-moving northbound object, again about +5.5, period roughly 10.5 seconds. Again the flashes quickly faded to invisible. I just checked alldat.tle again, using data from both nights, and I don't get a good candidate. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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