After timing Gorizont 16 last night, I decided to see if I could find any of the locals flashing (Telstar 401, GSTAR 1 and GSTAR 3). Within a few minutes I realized that one of the objects in the FOV of my 10x50's was slowly creeping toward the East. Later, I was able to identify this 5 second flasher as 94-080B (23416, common name?). At a range of 12500 km I would estimate it was around mag. 6 at best, but it was difficult to get good timing because of the slow rolling maxima. I also took a look for Gorizont 14 (17969, 87-040A) and was quite surprised to see it flashing so brightly. Well positioned for U.S. observers, this is an easy object for anyone with a pair of binoculars and a few minutes to spare. PPAS formatted obs: 88- 71 A 00-08-06 04:48:03 SDL3372.2 0.3 36 93.67 mag 5->inv. 94- 80 B 00-08-06 05:18 SDL 856.8 5.0 172 4.98 N? mag 6->inv. 87- 40 A 00-08-06 07:03:32 SDL1758.5 0.2 20 87.93 mag 4.5->inv. Best and clear, dark skies. Steve LaLumondiere ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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