In the last few nights I've seen three NOSS 2-1 (90-050C, D, E; 20691, 20692, 20642) passes visible without magnification, including last night when conditions here were pretty bad due to haze and the moonlight. After the recent one-power NOSS 2-2 passes, it seems to me that the common factor is that all of these passes of both trios were with the Sun more or less "behind" the satellites -- they were moving from NW to SE (more or less), away from the Sun's general direction. Last night after being interrupted for some minutes by a couple of passers-by, I managed to observe three flashes from Intelsat 512 (85-087A, 16101) at about 3:38-40 UTC -- about 40 minutes later than when it disappeared on August 10. That would seem to put its bright-flashing episode roughly 10 to 15 minutes later each night. So far its flash episode has been when it was in the general vicinity of epsilon Aquarii, roughly RA 20:40-55, Dec -9.0 to -10.0 (2000). Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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