After a warm day (+28 C) a beautifull summernight. Observing almost two houres in the evening, then some houres sleep and again 2 houres in the morning. Then back to bed again, a day off from work so no problem. Planets: Venus and Jupiter not seen due to a band of smog on the western horizon. Mars shines brilliant orange almost overhead. Saturnus and cresent moon in the east. Mercury very bright low in the east just before sunrise. Saw several recently launched objects, see blow 05-27, 31 and 32. The URL explaning the numbers : http://www.satobs.org/tumble/flashpm.html#PPASformat 02- 09 B 05-08-30 20:01 LB S, 4 02- 24 A 05-08-30 20:45:28 LB 182.1 0.5 5 36.4 aF, 5(3)->i Timings: 17.59 25.78 61.63 21.03 18.78 37.33 sec. Missed several max. 02- 56 A 05-08-30 21:20:05 LB almost S, 3, 1 flash 2 Flash at the reported time. 03- 09 C 05-08-30 20:53 LB almost S,4, 1 flare 2 04- 12 C 05-08-30 20:56 LB S, 5 04- 28 B 05-08-30 20:26:01 LB 107.6 0.5 2 53.8 AA, 4->7 Timings: 54.43 53.16 sec 04- 44 B 05-08-30 20:52 LB S, 3 04- 46 B 05-08-30 20:35 LB almost S, 7 05- 02 B 05-08-31 03:22:00 LB 106.8 0.5 11 9.71 AA, 4->7 Timings: [3.96 5.40] [4.72 4.83] [4.45 5.22] [4.84 5.19] [4.52 5.21] [4.61 5.04] [4.58 5.17] [4.80 4.92] [4.32(early timing) 5.68] [4.65 5.07] [4.69 4.92] sec. 05- 17 C 05-08-30 20:18:28 LB 55.0 0.5 4 13.8 AA, 6->i Timings: [4.73 4.37 5.83] [4.07 3.25 5.94] [5.09 3.00 5.00] [7.00 6.72] sec. 05- 27 A 05-08-31 03:16:20 LB 58.8 0.2 10 5.88 'Ff'F, 2(3)->i Timings: [2.77 3.03] [2.91 2.87] [2.95 2.92] [2.99 2.89] [2.89 2.95] [2.94 2.93] [3.01 2.87] [3.03 2.88] [3.05 2.92] [2.97 3.01] sec. The FSW-3 4 sat made a fast pass at just over 200 km. 05- 31 A 05-08-31 01:53 LB S, 6 05- 31 D 05-08-31 02:07:57 LB 73.7 0.2 7 10.53 Ff, 4(5)->i, N? Timings: 5.22 3.85 5.05 4.69 4.88 9.59 5.91 6.50 4.55 8.31 6.17 9.00 sec. Irregular flashing. 05- 32 B 05-08-30 21:36:56 LB 89.6 0.5 4 22.4 A,A, 4->i Timings: 15.00 11.76 19.59 21.44 21.78 sec. The rocket of the Monitor-E sat was almost S, mag 4 with dips to inv. 65- 65 C 05-08-31 02:15:50 LB 74.8 0.2 21 3.56 Ff, 4(5)->i, N? Timings: 17.12 3.82 4.56 1.40 1.35 3.00 1.34 5.59 3.81 3.62 0.95 1.26 1.47 3.16 1.24 2.42 3.06 0.66 3.36 3.56 2.40 4.43 1.18 sec. 70- 28 B 05-08-31 02:58 LB S, 3 75- 94 B 05-08-30 19:58 LB S, 5 81- 87 B 05-08-31 03:27 LB S, 5 82- 12 B 05-08-31 02:25 LB S, 7 82- 30 B 05-08-31 02:46 LB S, 6 83- 79 B 05-08-31 02:35 LB S, 5 85- 94 G 05-08-30 21:15:29 LB 88.5 0.5 4 22.1 AA, 4->7 Timings: 23.10 20.76 22.28 22.36 sec. 86- 30 B 05-08-31 02:32 LB almost S, 6 87- 11 A 05-08-30 20:49:12 LB 93.9 0.5 4 23.5 AA, 4->i Timings: [13.47 10.12] [13.01 10.26] [12.87 10.20] [13.41 10.59] sec. 87- 11 A 05-08-31 03:45:11 LB 118.6 0.5 5 23.71 Aa, 4(5)->i Timings: 23.48 [12.60 10.85] [11.61 12.12] [11.92 12.10] [11.74 12.15] sec. 88- 20 A 05-08-30 20:06 LB almost S, 5 88- 23 B 05-08-31 02:37 LB S, 5.5 89- 50 B 05-08-30 20:11 LB S, 6 92- 76 B 05-08-30 21:00 LB S, 5 93- 20 B 05-08-31 02:43 LB 100.1 0.5 1 100.1 AA, 5->i Long period. 2005: 577 obs PPAS: 14168 obs Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst, Medemblik NL Cospar 4252 52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL http://www.home.versatel.nl/leobarhorst/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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