Due to an RA and Dec interpolation miscalculation, I accidentally found a flashing geosynch that turned out not to be the one I had intended to look for. The one that was actually observed was Luch (94-082A, 24038). (Thanks very much to Mike for the rapid ID!) I had times on it from about 5:13 until about 6:04 UTC -- a long time. It was flashing to about +5.0 (possibly +4.5) every 88 seconds. Here is a PPAS report: 94- 82 A 06-08-25 05:49:38 EC 968.1 0.3 11 88.01 +5.0->i Didn't see Orion 3 tonight due to too much competition (a NOSS trio and USA 129, plus an unid that crossed with the NOSS trio) -- and its predictions were on the next page, and I didn't turn the page until after it was too late to see its bright flashes. Watched Superbird A (89-041A, 20040) with my 12x60 from about 4:00 until at least 4:06 UTC, when the satellite was near and in an easy triangle asterism at RA 15:00, Dec -9 (2000). It's getting pretty low in the west-southwest now. Lacrosse 5 (05-016A, 28646) was very bright for its entire pass until it went into the Earth's shadow. Cosmos 1461 (83-044A, 14064) was exceptionally bright -- predicted +3.0 but was +1.0 or brighter for much of the pass. Very pretty sky -- one of the evenings when we can see the Milky Way from BCRC: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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