RE: NOSS 3-1 objects C & A flared to -2 last night

From: Bruce MacDonald (mu_cephei@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 16 2007 - 15:27:52 EDT

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    Mike McCants wrote:
    
    >Last night at BCRC, Ed Cannon and I watched in amazement as the
    >NOSS 3-1 (C) and (A) objects (26907 and 26905) flared to about
    >magnitude -2 (comparable to Sirius) very near our zenith just before
    >culmination.  The culmination predictions were alt 88, azi 301 at
    >03:24:53 and 03:24:59 UT April 15.  The maximum brightness for each
    >was about 10 seconds before this time.  The actual alt/azi was 85 at 226.
    >The sun-satellite-observer angle was about 60 degrees, so the
    >reflecting surface is tilted from the vertical by about 30 degrees.
    
    I found a similar flare from 96-029D last November on a 41-degree altitude 
    pass:
    
    http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Nov-2006/0168.html
    
    Not as spectacular as the NOSS 3-1 perhaps, but nevertheless interesting.
    
    
    Bruce MacDonald
    COSPAR Site 2751
    Devizes, Wiltshire, UK
    51.3440°N 1.9849° W 125M (WGS84)
    
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