A beautiful, clear night, with quite some meteor activity. The obs started with a low pass of ISS/STS100 of 15 degrees in the southwest. The sky was still bright with just Sirius visible. ISS was orange, S, -2 00- 6 B 01-04-22 02:18:35 LB 312.0 0.2 24 13.00 AA, 3->i, sm, 4 + 6 Timings of the bright flashes: 13.27 14.10 50.92 53.59 50.92 26.19 51.16 51.83 sec. Inbetween there were secondary flashes mag 4 and 6, moving closer to the primary flash as the sat got more to the east. 00- 33 D 01-04-22 01:54:01 LB 106.9 0.2 10 10.69 AA, 5->i This obs confirms my sighting of yesterdaymorning. Timings: 9.58 11.40 10.48 9.81 11.35 9.88 11.22 22.00 11.21 sec. 00- 33 D 01-04-22 03:30:37 LB 120.7 0.2 11 10.97 AA, 3->i Timings: 11.07 10.67 10.76 10.72 33.30 33.58 10.55 sec. 00- 55 A 01-04-22 02:11 LB S, 6 65- 98 C 01-04-21 22:29 LB almost S, 5 70- 25CD 01-04-22 02:35 LB var, 6->i 71-116 B 01-04-21 21:55:43 LB 183.6 0.2 10 18.36 FF, 4->i, P=12.72+5.64 Timings: 12.20 6.10 12.09 5.90 12.29 5.84 12.85 5.78 12.53 5.69 12.18 6.17 13.27 4.98 13.12 5.46 13.42 5.02 13.26 5.45 sec. This gives the combined period of 12.72 + 5.64 = 18.36 sec. When there were invisible flashes in the long period, the overall period would be 6.12 sec over 30 flashes.; but this doesn't fit the obs in PPAS. 78- 18 B 01-04-21 20:39:02 LB 75.6 0.2 22 3.44 FF, 6->i Timings: 6.74 13.83 6.79 13.89 6.90 13.74 13.73 sec 78- 18 B 01-04-21 22:25:34 LB 124.6 0.2 36 3.46 FF, 4->i Timings: 6.81 10.54 6.80 3.48 3.47 3.47 3.44 3.34 17.41 3.48 3.40 3.47 26.42 8.25 3.43 3.52 3.42 3.46 3.46 3.48 sec 79- 30 B 01-04-21 20:24 LB S, 5 81- 59 A 01-04-21 20:09:41 LB 191.4 0.2 22 8.70 FF, 4->i, sm, 6 Timings: 8.71 8.58 8.72 8.77 8.65 8.83 8.68 24.00 6.46 40.79 8.68 8.78 8.82 10.66 34.75 8.77 8.78 sec. Several primary flashes not seen and some secondary flashes timed. 82- 66 B 01-04-22 03:16 LB S, 5 83- 31 B 01-04-21 20:59 LB S, 6 85- 79 B 01-04-21 20:31:33 LB 103.3 0.2 10 10.33 AA, 4->i, sm, 5 87- 11 A 01-04-21 21:22 LB S, 5 88- 62 B 01-04-22 02:53:02 LB 109.6 0.5 2 54.8 AA, 5->i, sm, 7 90- 4 B 01-04-21 22:15 LB S, 5 90- 17 B 01-04-21 21:49:52 LB 123.0 0.5 4 30.7 AA, 4->i Timings: 30.35 30.65 61.97 sec 90-111 B 01-04-21 21:35 LB S, 6 91- 29 B 01-04-21 21:31:18 LB 85.7 0.5 2 42.9 AA, 5->i 92- 8 B 01-04-21 22:33:44 LB 110.1 0.5 4 27.5 AA, 4->i 92- 94 A 01-04-21 20:46 LB var, 7->i, 1 fl, 2 93- 1 B 01-04-22 01:59:14 LB 122.4 1.0 1 122 MM, 4->i 93- 8 B 01-04-21 20:14 LB almost S, 5 95- 12 B 01-04-22 02:32 LB S, 5.5 95- 17 D 01-04-21 20:26:26 LB 28.4 0.5 4 7.1 AA, 7->i 95- 32 B 01-04-22 01:43:55 LB 156.6 0.5 4 39.2 AA, 4->6 95- 58 B 01-04-21 22:00 LB S, 6 96- 51 B 01-04-22 02:56 LB S, 3 96- 52 C 01-04-21 21:41:51 LB 83.8 0.2 9 9.31 AA, 5->i Timings: 9.59 18.64 18.68 18.50 18.35 sec 98- 7 D 01-04-21 22:13 LB var, 5->6 98- 43 G 01-04-21 21:20 LB S, 3 98- 55 B 01-04-21 22:04 LB almost S, 6 98- 72 C 01-04-21 21:06 LB var, 6->i 99- 22 C 01-04-22 02:04:16 LB 126.6 0.2 16 7.92 AA, 4->i 99- 39 B 01-04-21 20:36 LB S, 2 99- 45 B 01-04-22 02:26:19 LB 94.1 1.0 1 94 MM, 4->6 Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst Medemblik 244 obs in 2001 52.767 N 5.09 E 2 m ASL 11259 obs in PPAS ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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