Hoi List, Another good evening for observing and photography. Measured the position of three satellites: #25017: Lacrosse 3 #24680: USA 129 #25744: USA 144 In IOD format, still without a station code, but coordinates are below and Russell Eberst is working on it: 25017 97 064A F 20000825203716720 37 25 1943930+121870 68 24680 96 027A F 20000825210217860 37 25 1714730+235810 48 25744 99 028A F 20000825213701180 37 25 1855760+335010 38 Latitude: 51°54'41"N Longitude: 05°10'25" E Elevation: -2 m Also observed and photographed the flashing of Okean-O r (#25681) and I tried to observe the NOSS 2-3 triplet, but this failed. I did make a photograph of the starfield it had to cross, but if they are on the negative I don't know. Then another flashing sat I can't identify. At approximately 20:31:50 (+/- 10s) UTC I saw a flash in Hercules. I saw it from the corner of my eye and had to guesstimate the position. I think the flash was negative in magnitude. As I watched more carefull to the area the first flash appear a second one was visible. For a fraction of a second I saw the bright flash some degrees above the cup-shaped feature in Hercules thus roughly above Pi and Eta Her. Some seconds, could be 5, could be 10, later a third flash occured, now of a magnitude of +1/+2. There were approximately 5 degrees between the flashes and the object moved from south to north, into the direction of Ursa Major. Between the flashes the satellite must have had a magnitude less than +5, the limiting magnitude at that time. A quick peak through my binocular didn't show a sat, but then again I wasn't looking hard enough, because I was expecting more flashes. Can someone help me with the identification of this sat? Would be nice to observe it some more. Regards, Cees Bassa ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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