> However, I also found the following to nearly cross the moon at 9:37:36 CDT. > Perhaps your watch was slow by 31 seconds or so? > > 94029ZE > 1 24602U 94029ZE 03225.25034656 .00000438 00000-0 16399-3 0 4307 > 2 24602 81.5293 258.5212 0837937 54.3727 313.2540 13.17156918339357 Thanks (to you and others) for going to the trouble to check out the satellite possibility for the flash. As for timing, I think the estimate in the original message is pretty close. Here's how it was made: I looked at the moon, saw the flash, looked for a few seconds more to see if anything else happened, realized that I should look at my watch and did so -- the watch said 09:37:14 CDT. Arriving back at the house about 30 minutes later, I found that the watch was running a little less than a second slow relative to a WWVB radio-controlled clock, so 09:37:14 was corrected to 09:37:15. I'm "sure" that the time between seeing the flash and looking at the watch was not less than 5 seconds nor more than 15, hence the 14:37:05 UT +- 5 sec. However, as we all know, witness testimony is often unreliable, so caveat calculator. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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