Following Lacrosse 5 from my site at 49.8822 N, 8.6558 E last night (7-AUG-06) it passed Alpha UMa at 20:37:41 UT with slightly less than mag 4. (This weak magnitude was as expected due to an unfavorable phase angle.) L5 kept this magnitude for half a minute when it suddenly flared for about 10 seconds. The rather sharp peak of this flare was at 20:38:13 UT at about mag 1.5 . After that it returned to mag 4. It may have been a flare from a smaller secondary surface rather than from a larger surface (for which I would have been further off track and seen a flatter peak). Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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