Hi folks, I have been a silent member of this list for about five months now and I've really enjoyed reading some top quality material. I live about 35km SW of Melbourne, Australia and am in my final year of high school. My main hobby is amateur rocketry which got me into 'casual' satellite observing a few years ago. The satellites I have been observing of late are mainly formations and flashers/sparklers: Meteor 3M rkt - (27006) which is flashing naked-eye about twice per second at my location. USA 32 - (19460) which I (like others in the past) have seen 'sparkle' at culmintion for varying lengths of time on many evening passes. NOSS 2-2 formation on an approx mag 6 pass through 9x63 binoculars, and the USA 160 pair a few times. I also like to keep an eye out for 'double flares' by Iridiums, a couple of which I have seen. I am keen to capture 'simultaneous' double flares on film, I have narrowly missed one opportunity recently due to cloud. Now that the obligatory introduction is out of the way, the main point of this message (sorry): On a hike this weekend a number of friends and myself witnessed a bright (approx mag -4) flare, lasting probably 8-10 seconds. Its approximate position was 65 deg elevation in the east (between 80 deg and 100 deg), southbound. The only candidate I have found (using Findsat and mccants, alldat) is Meteor 2-2 (9661, 77002A). Is this type of satellite able to flare this brightly? My location was 37.4830S, 145.8670E. Any info would be appreciated. Sorry for the slightly long-winded intro (it is proportional to my enjoyment of this list). Adam Shrimpton __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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