I had assumed that it would be months before we would get a chance here to see Gravity Probe B, but Mike had predictions and it turned out that in spite of clouds trying hard to end the session very early, we did get to see it and its Delta exit from the Earth's shadow. GP-B was about +4.5 fairly low in the NE, and the Delta was fainter, later, in the NW. PPAS reports on Cosmos 2082 Rk (20625), a big, bright Zenit, from last night and some months ago: 90- 46 B 04-04-23 03:09:19 EC 130.8 5.0 6 22 +2->inv 90- 46 B 03-09-07 02:43:03 EC 298.7 3.0 19 15.7 +4.0->+6.0 I saw a zero magnitude or maybe -1 flare in the northern head of Hydra, a northbound object. It was Meteor 2-18 (89-018A, 19851). PPAS report for Intelsat 503 Centaur Rk (13007): 81-119 B 04-04-23 03:32:00 EC 189.9 0.3 22 8.63 The session was ended somewhat early by very low rapidly moving northbound clouds. The clouds earlier also blocked a pass of Galileo IUS (89-084C, 20299) lower than 240 km and also 90019. On the other hand, good old Okean-O Rk (99-039B, 25861) arrived while there were a lot of clouds, but it stayed easily visible in a hole for almost its entire pass. Site was BCRC: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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