At around 7:45 UTC ( Apr 9 ) I watched milstar 3 come out of shadow. Thanks to the fact it was around the area of sky 180 degrees from the sun ( a difference of 12 Hours R.A )it flared up somewhat. As it is slowly rotating, it dimmed, then got bright again, going into the mag 4-5 range. I now have to wait for the milstar's to quite passing through the earth's shadow, so that there main body's can again cause a flare, when they are around 180 degrees from the sun. With them, I don't need to wait until geo sat flare season, when the solar panels cause the flare's. It fun to observe them in binoculars. Kevin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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