Well, I heard from Rob Matson Thursday and envy his successful trip to observe the solar eclipse! Now two more new SkyMap files are available for at least a few days until they're on the the regular FTP sites: Replacement AUX file (329K): http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/sky64aux.zip Asteroid ephemeris data for SkyMap (76K): http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/asteroid.zip Those go with the new SkyMap 6.4 (265K): http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/sky64.zip After a potential pair of whopper Iridium flares were clouded out Tuesday evening, Austin had a very nice SW-NE zenith pass of ISS Wednesday evening that went near the Moon and Vega in a beautifully clear sky. And I saw a really nice two-second -3 flare from OAO 3 (Copernicus, 06153, 72-65A) at about 2:44:56 UTC 19 August. I always look for anything with "OAO" inthe common name (payload or rocket), because they sometimes are amazingly bright. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.