Hi Ulrich, > So, it was the morning of July 25th, 2001, 04:00 LT (02:00 UT) > plus/minus a few minutes. I was near 8.66E, 50.50N. The satellite > rose in the Northeast, underneath Perseus, flashing irregularly > to -2 or -3m with a period between 10 and 20 seconds between > flashes. It passed above the three brightest stars in Aries > (the little triangle which is all you can see of the > constellation from lightpolluted sites), then went towards > the south, where I lost track of it. Best match I've been able to find so far is IRS-1A (#18960), but I don't know if it's a known flasher or not. It rose underneath Perseus around 1:54 UT, passed just above alpha Aries at 1:54:50, and set around 2:01, low in the SSE. Another satellite on a similar, but higher trajectory (it went right through Perseus at 2:03) culminated at 2:04 about 9 degrees above alpha Aries, and set at 2:08:45 on a due south heading. This was Nadezhda 6 (#26384). This satellite is at a much lower altitude, and thus would have been brighter and travelling faster, but again I don't know if this is a flashing satellite. None of the bright flashing Iridium satellites appears to have been in your skies at the time. Best, Rob ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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