USA 161 obs, was Re: Raduga 33 great show

From: Björn Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Date: Sat Aug 09 2003 - 14:26:53 EDT

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    I forgot that my new 500 memory stopwatch I use at 5919 is fast by 3.9
    s/day (in summer night temperatures). So from USA 161 obs, while I was
    asleep and had breakfast, the correction to my obs had grown by 1.64 s
    
    26934 01 044A   5919 G 20030808224416840 17 25 0030812+573937 19 S
    26934 01 044A   5919 G 20030808224500240 17 25 0704101+751584 67 S
    
    > After baffling our dinner guests with a (predicted) -5.5 mag flare from
    > Ir 8 at 23:22:40 (UTC+2) I had a chance to observe the midnight
    KeyHoles.
    > While waiting for USA 161, "Ir 911 tum" caught me off-guard, and I only
    > timed a few flashes and memorized approximate track for ID.
    >
    > 26934 01 044A   5919 G 20030808224415200 17 25 0030812+573937 19 S
    > 26934 01 044A   5919 G 20030808224458600 17 25 0704101+751584 67 S
    >
    > Waiting for USA 116, another bright flasher caught my eyes. I may have
    > missed the first 1x flashes, but it soon became apparent that it was
    > moving very slowly in Dir=210 degrees, and flashed with a period of 33
    > seconds.
    
    I was too preoccupied with Raduga 33 to bother about USA 116
    
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