Splendid night, nice view of the Milky Way, saw several meteorids. Some had a glowing trail that lasted several seconds. Radiant seemed to be around Lyra, Cygnus. Made obs in the evening in between two passes of 2000- 6 B, got some hours sleep and started in the morning at 01:20 UT to finish with Superbird A at 03:25 UT when it was becoming to bright to observe further. 00- 6 B 00-08-25 19:41:29 LB 448.5 0.2 223 2.011 FF, 3->5 Was almost S 3 in zenith, about 3:06 minutes. 00- 6 B 00-08-25 21:25:49 LB 443.4 0.2 220 2.015 FF, 3->i 00- 6 B 00-08-26 02:43:05 LB 322.9 0.2 160 2.018 FF, 3->i Is going up slowly. Period, measured over 10 flashes, varied from 19.70 to 20.72 seconds in these three passes. 00- 33 D 00-08-26 01:53:30 LB 53.9 0.2 30 1.80 AA, 6->i, sm 7 71-120 B 00-08-26 01:49 LB S, 5 76- 19 A 00-08-26 01:40:10 LB 110.6 0.2 24 4.61 FF, 4->i, sm, 5 Sevaral of the sm not visible, even some of the primary max. 81- 59 A 00-08-25 19:54:19 LB 96.9 0.2 27 3.59 FF, 4->i Period varied between 3.15 and 3.91 sec. 85- 79 B 00-08-26 02:35:11 LB 81.0 0.5 7 11.6 Irr, AA, 4->i Timings: 12.54 12.67 23.40 12.01 9.40 10.98 sec 87-106 B 00-08-26 02:01 LB S, 6 88- 19 A 00-08-26 01:27 LB almost S, 6 88-102 A 00-08-26 02:09:48 LB 74.3 0.2 9 8.26 FF, 2->i, 1 flash -1 89- 41 A 00-08-25 05:27:27.44LB 309.4 0.2 27 11.46 FfF, 3(5)->i 90- 13 A 00-08-25 20:25 LB almost S, 4 90- 17 B 00-08-26 01:33:21 LB 102.2 0.5 4 25.5 AA, 5->7 91- 59 B 00-08-25 20:33 LB S, 6 92- 36 B 00-08-26 01:35 LB slowly var, 5->6 93- 20 B 00-08-25 20:15:10 LB 102.6 0.5 2 51.3 AA, 4->i 93- 61 A 00-08-25 20:54:16 LB 129.7 0.2 23 5.64 FF, 2->i, 1 flash -1 Period somewhat Irr, not all sm visible. 93- 70 B 00-08-26 02:48:16 LB 101.0 0.5 9 11.2 Irr, AA, 5->i Timings: 10.40 11.69 9.56 13.44 9.56 13.22 9.94 12.72 10.43 sec Period seems to be average of around 10 and 13 sec. 95- 72 C 00-08-25 20:03 LB almost S, 5 96- 4 B 00-08-26 02:21:05 LB 206.7 0.2 20 10.34 AA, 4->7 Is going up steadily, seems to have had an accelarion in early April, when it got down from 18 sec to ?? When observing it again Jun 2nd I timed it at 7.1 sec. Or is it just that the sm were hardly visible? 96- 17 B 00-08-25 20:59 LB almost S, 6 96- 25 B 00-08-26 03:10 LB S, 3 96- 52 C 00-08-26 02:30:40 LB 128.9 0.5 4 32.2 AA, 4->6 97- 64 B 00-08-25 20:31:07 LB 166.9 1.0 3 55.6 MM, 3->5 99- 39 A 00-08-25 20:38 LB S, 3 99- 39 B 00-08-25 20:45:51 LB 342.5 0.5 40 8.56 AA, 3->6 Now period gets longer, it seems that period is in fact the average of two periods; one around 8 sec, the other around 9 seconds. 99- 41 E 00-08-25 20:00 LB S, 5 Superbird A observation. Peak flashes around 03:24:30 UT Saw 1 flash about 23 sec before the first timed flash. The first 8 and last 10 flashes were aternately bright and faint, in between both were bright. 0 - 03:22:18.00 1 11.36 03:22:29.36 2 11.43 03:22:40.79 3 11.51 03:22:52.30 4 11.35 03:23:03.65 5 11.57 03:23:15.22 6 11.35 03:23:26.57 7 11.54 03:23:38.11 8 11.43 03:23:49.54 9 11.46 03:24:01.00 10 11.52 03:24:12.52 11 11.42 03:24:23.94 12 11.53 03:24:35.47 13 11.34 03:24:46.81 14 11.62 03:24:58.43 15 11.36 03:25:09.79 16 11.49 03:25:21.28 17 11.48 03:25:32.76 18 11.42 03:25:44.18 19 11.46 03:25:55.64 20 11.53 03:26:07.17 21 11.47 03:26:18.64 22 11.45 03:26:30.09 23 11.41 03:26:41.50 24 11.41 03:26:52.91 25 11.56 03:27:04.47 26 - - 27 22.97 03:27:27.44 No more flashes seen. Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst Medemblik 805 obs in 2000 52.767 N 5.09 E 2 m ASL 10541 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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