Last night (early August 14 UTC) the NOSS 2-1 trio again was visible without magnification in spite of the moonlight and haze. At the brightest, one of them, the "outlier" I believe, was about +3. That's four one-power passes. My last Intelsat 512 (85-087A, 16101) time last night was 3:52:37, compared to 3:40:01 the previous night. It seems to disappear pretty suddenly rather than fade slowly. While trying unsuccessfully to find Gorizont 23 or ASC 1 or both in one FOV, a fairly slow-moving flashing UNID went south through the FOV. It seems that 92-030J (21984, Cosmos 2187 Rk) is a pretty good match. Correction to AMS 4 (DMSP F4, 11389, 79-050A) obs: It was about 110 seconds (1:50) late, not 170 seconds (2:50). (I guess I'll have to give up trying to do arithmetic in my head....) Observing location the last two nights was Elizabet Ney Museum grounds, 30.3068N, 97.7267W, 150 m -- a few hundred meters southeast of my apartment. (With the moonlight, the city skyglow seems pretty much negligible.) 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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