A splendid summer night. In the evening I started with the last Zenit rocket 2000-06 B and ended with is precessor 1999-39 B. In the morning I did several obs before observing Superbird A again. At 02:38 UT MIR, 1986- 17 A, made a S, mag 2 pass. 00- 6 B 00-08-23 20:10:20 LB 518.0 0.2 261 1.985 FF, 3->6 Timings every 10th flash: 19.66 20.14 19.44 18.52 19.40 19.91 20.02 19.54 20.26 19.17 22.56(11) 19.79 20.50 20.19 99.98 20.03 19.80 20.07 19.94 19.39 20.17 19.51 sec The obs was difficult in the zenith, as the brightness differance wasn't great, varied between mag 3 and 4. 00- 6 B 00-08-24 03:11:22 LB 198.3 0.2 100 1.983 FF, 3->i Timings every 10th flash: 19.69 19.71 20.08 19.70 20.03 19.83 19.67 19.95 19.76 19.89 sec. Low pass in the east, very good measurable. 65- 65 C 00-08-24 02:27:42 LB 53.3 0.2 20 2.67 FF, 5->i 66- 56 B 00-08-23 21:24:19 LB 144.8 0.2 2 72.4 FF, 5->i, sm, 6 69- 9 A 00-08-23 20:50:58 LB 138.5 0.2 9 15.39 Irr, FF, 3->i, sm, 5 Timings of the bright flashes: 5.60 6.23 18.30 11.88 15.78 11.90 3.30 12.15 8.64 7.11 14.58 15.27 15.50 sec 70- 25CD 00-08-24 03:07 LB slowly var 5->7 76- 19 A 00-08-24 02:23:41 LB 87.2 0.2 19 4.59 FF, 4->i, sm, 5 Timings: 13.80 13.74 9.23 6.99 11.28 9.25 4.61 4.50 4.71 4.54 4.50 sec. Missed several flashes in the begin, and timed once on a sm 81- 59 A 00-08-23 20:25:31 LB 93.3 0.2 13 7.17 FF, 4->i, sm, 5 In between the sharp bright flashes there were most of the time two faint secondary flashes. Timings: 7.19 7.06 7.22 7.21 7.18 7.14 7.21 7.15 7.18 6.93 7.42 7.20 7.17 sec. 83- 21 B 00-08-23 20:42 LB S, 7 84-109 B 00-08-23 20:28 LB S, 7 87-106 B 00-08-24 02:55:25 LB 113.8 1.0 1 114 MM, 5->i 88- 23 B 00-08-23 20:37 LB S, 6 89- 41 A 00-08-24 03:25:31.66LB 332.6 0.2 29 11.47 FF, 3->i, sm, 5 For detail see below 91- 7 B 00-08-23 20:40 LB S, 7 92- 38 B 00-08-23 20:57 LB almost S, 5 92- 73 B 00-08-23 21:05 LB slowly var, 6->i 93- 20 B 00-08-23 21:12:43 LB 101.7 0.5 2 50.9 AA, 5->i 95- 2 D 00-08-23 21:03:04 LB 61.1 0.5 2 30.5 AA, 5->7 96- 4 B 00-08-24 03:15:34 LB 101.4 0.5 10 10.1 AA, 4->7 96- 25 B 00-08-24 02:32:00 LB S, 5 96- 51 B 00-08-24 02:49 LB S, 5 97- 64 B 00-08-23 21:18 LB almost S, 4 98- 45 B 00-08-24 02:57 LB S, 4 99- 22 C 00-08-24 02:42:37 LB 71.1 0.2 30 2.37 AA, 4->6 99- 39 B 00-08-23 21:29:29 LB 163.9 0.5 20 8.20 AA, 4->i Timings: 7.85 8.54 8.02 7.78 7.52 7.78 8.50 9.94 7.00 9.53 7.54 8.50 8.94 7.62 8.40 8.97 7.78 8.75 7.75 7.22 sec. 99- 43 E 00-08-23 20:46 LB S, 4 Superbird made a nice show. I started watching several minutes before the predicted time by Rob Matson. Suddenly the first flash appeared, not timed. The next bright flash was timed. Then every flash, also the fain- ter secondary flashes. In the middle of the obs the flashes became equally bright. At the end there were some very faint flashes, too faint to be sure to time and then a last brigth flash. Nothing was seen therafter as I kept on watching for several minutes. 0 03:19:59.01 0 1 - 2 03:20:21.87 22.86 3 03:20:33.48 11.61 4 03:20:44.73 11.25 5 03:20:56.23 11.50 6 03:21:07.72 11.49 7 03:21:19.12 11.40 8 03:21:30.57 11.45 9 03:21:42.18 11.61 10 03:21:53.68 11.50 11 03:22:05.01 11.33 12 03:22:16.58 11.57 13 03:22:27.92 11.34 14 03:22:39.38 11.46 15 03:22:50.80 11.42 16 03:23:02.33 11.53 17 03:23:13.91 11.58 18 03:23:25.25 11.34 19 03:23:36.77 11.52 20 03:23:48.30 11.53 21 03:23:59.61 11.31 22 03:24:11.21 11.60 23 03:24:22.57 11.36 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 03:25:31.66 69.09 Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst Medemblik 777 obs in 2000 52.767 N 5.09 E 2 m ASL 10513 obs in PPAS ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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