Last night Raduga 33 (96-010A, 23794) put on a great show. It did a series of 8 or 9 flashes up to at least zero magnitude at the brightest. They were every 33.2 seconds, from 4:35:09.0 to 4:40:07.7. In Mike's 200mm scope, secondary and tertiary maxima were visible. The range was more than 4800 km and increasing. These were roughly from RA 22:41, Dec. +61.0, to RA 23:48, Dec. +54.3 (2000). We saw Envisat and its Ariane. By that time, from here, Envisat was brighter. Two other "conjunctions" that I saw with my 10x50s were MER-A Delta Rk (03-027C, 27829) and Okean O (99-039A, 25860), and CBERS 1 Rk Debris DL (99-057DL, 26222, which tumbles) and Cosmos 968 Rk (77-119B, 10521). I saw the following without magnification in the moonlight and with scattered cirrus conditions: 06155 72-065B OAO 3 Rk (Centaur?) 06779 71-116B Intelsat 4-F3 Rk (Centaur; quite bright) 11683 80-008B Cosmos 1154 Rk 12586 81-065B Meteor 1-31 Rk (not easy this time) 17191 86-097A Cosmos 1805 22566 93-016B Cosmos 2237 Rk (Zenit) 22997 94-010C Shi Jian 4 Rk (Long March, quite bright) 23323 94-068A IRS-P2 (only one 1x flash this pass) 23794 96-010A Raduga 33 (wow!) 23851 96-024A MSX (not easy this time) 24297 96-051A Cosmos 2333 25544 98-067A ISS 25860 99-039A Okean O 25861 99-039B Okean O Rk (Zenit -- brightest non-payload?) 26405 00-039B CHAMP (flare) Observing location was 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. USA 102 (94-017B, 23031) continues to elude. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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