Thanks very much to Björn Gimle for the following helpful information: > on Aug 27 Intelsat 512 flashes should END 06:50 UTC near the +6.3m > star HP 100524 at 20:23 -9:39 I was able to find it (85-087A, 16101) again after failing the previous two nights, and the last flash that I saw was at about 06:49:12 UTC. This one is easy to see in binoculars, as long as one looks at the right time! (I wonder if it's flashing at midnight local time on the USA west coast.) Here's PPAS report beginning from the end of the phase shift: 85- 87 A 00-08-27 05:29:12 EC 348.8 0.3 9 38.76 mag +4.0->inv Its flash period has decreased by more than one second in 16 nights: 85- 87 A 00-08-11 03:20:09 EC 680.8 0.3 17 40.05 mag +3.5->inv Orion 3 (25727, 99-024A) non-obs: After its series of astoundingly bright flashes Friday night (local time), it did not do any such thing last night (Saturday local)! Using one-power to look for it for two or three minutes along its predicted track, I did not see any sign of it at all. Tele-X (19919, 89-027A) again flashed brighter than +2 last night; the flash for which I have a specific notation was at about 4:25:29 Aug 27 UTC -- near the end of the post-phase shift group of flashes. This one seems to flash at roughly the same time each night even though it's moved farther west. Mike McCants found Unknown 90007 and Telstar 401 (22927, 93-077A) last night. The former was visible most of the time at about +12; the latter flashed to about +8.5 roughly every 444 seconds (over seven minutes -- handheld binocs not recommended!), but it did have faint secondary and tertiary maxima every 111 seconds, which made it a little more interesting. Oh, Mike also found ETS-6/Kiku 6 (23230, 94-056A) easily even though it was near apogee; I forgot to write down the magnitude, but it was fairly bright for that range. 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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