ccarrington.cs@clearstream.com wrote: > Heavens above always has quite a high magnitude for the satellite, which I > presumed was the mag. when it wasn't reflecting back to an observer. Am I > mistaken, is mag. ~7 as bright a flash as it will produce? Hi Chris, I've seen Starshine 3 flash 3 times. The magnitude of the flashes were around +1 to 0. I'm quite sure its magnitude when not producing flashes is below +7. The satellite body is painted in black and I've not been able to see it through my 20x80 binoculars. BTW, Starshine 3's life is coming to an end. Its decay is predicted in January, so it's worth trying some last observations. It is not spinning anymore, so the flashes are rare. The are easy to see naked eye. Dan -- Daniel Deak representant, projet spatial Starshine L'Avenir, Quebec COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 m., UTC-4:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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