Well, it was an eventful evening in spite of the first quarter Moon and partly cloudy weather (jet-stream cirrus moving west-to-east). Mike located the new Milstar 6 Centaur (27712, 03-012B). The MDS 1 Fairing 1 (27369, 02-003C) made a low and very bright (-1) pass. Now if only SCC would cough up Fairing 2 elements (and the launch's H-2 Rk also?). DASH (27367, 02-003A) did a similar though not so bright pass a few nights ago. A week or two ago I was able to see Fairing 1 at about +6.5 at a range of about 9,000 km. I saw the following 19 objects without binoculars: 03598 68-110B OAO 2 Rk 10521 77-119B Cosmos 968 Rk 10539 77-123A Cosmos 972 (not easy without binocs) 10967 78-064A Seasat 1 12072 80-093B Cosmos 1222 Rk 12389 81-033B Cosmos 1263 Rk 14820 84-027B Cosmos 1544 Rk 19275 88-056B Okean 1 Rk 21150 91-018B Inmarsat 2-2 Rk 22788 93-056B UFO 2 Rk (UHF F2 Rk) - flashes 22823 93-061A SPOT 3 - long maxima 23020 94-014B Koronas 1 Rk 24966 97-056B Iridium 35 - flare (brighter than predicted) 24969 97-056E Iridium 34 - flare 25262 98-018A Iridium 51? - flare (brighter than predicted) 25544 98-067A ISS (12-15 degrees above north horizon) 25855 99-037E Globalstar 32 Rk 26405 00-039B CHAMP 27369 02-003C MDS 1 Fairing 1 - flashes ISS and Iridium 34 were both one-power at the same time. The cirrus clouds plus moonlight precluded me seeing any flashing geosynchs with just my 10x50s. Location was BCRC: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Some PPAS reports: MDS 1 Fairing 1 (27369): 02-003 C 03-04-10 01:56:15 EC 224.3 0.4 28 8.01 -1.0 IRS P2 (23323; seemed to be flash-flash-flash-miss, with the total cycle being 11.6 seconds): 94-068 A 03-04-10 03:36:59 EC 58.0 0.4 5 11.6 +4 From the previous night, same location -- Gorizont 17 (19765): 89-004 A 03-04-09 03:45:19 EC 765.0 0.3 7 109.28 +6.5 UME 1 (08709): 76-019 A 03-04-09 03:10:49 EC 58.9 0.3 23 2.56 (or 5.12?) Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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