Possible Telstar 401 obs. reported on newsgroup
Ed Cannon (ecannon@mail.utexas.edu)
Fri, 17 Dec 1999 20:44:23 -0600
There's a reported obs. on the newsgroup that very possibly was Telstar
401 (93-77A, 22927). The observer, Steve Lalumondiere, apparently using
10x binocs, was looking for Telstar 401 and found an object flashing to
as bright as +3 every 200.9 seconds. He found it at 21:57 Dec 15 PST
(5:57 Dec 16 UTC) and timed it for over an hour. He gave his location
as 33.820 N, 118.316 W, ~29 m. He reported that at some point during
the obs. it began to display two flashes separated by 5 seconds -- most
interesting! I'm hoping to try to look for it later tonight, but it may
be that it's only visible now from the western USA. Here are recent
elements:
Telstar 401
1 22927U 93077A 99349.41567858 -.00000106 00000-0 00000+0 0 2952
2 22927 2.2477 84.1352 0007476 208.0530 200.5703 1.00259621 21502
I've made a small page about ways to access the newsgroup via the Web
(at least three sites) or NNTP server:
http://wwwvms.utexas.edu/~ecannon/newsgroup.htm
Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA
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