For the record, I just found that the owners of the Superbird satellites call the one launched in December 1992 "Superbird A": http://www.superbird.co.jp/english/superbird/a.html But SCC calls that one "Superbird A1" and the one launched in 1989 (89-041A, 20040, the drifting one whose flashes we watch) is "A". Among those of us who *like* actual names more than numbers, I'm wondering about calling 89-041A/20040 "Superbird A0" or something else. ISS was beautiful earlier. It was very bright until it got over in the east and dropped three or four magnitudes, then stayed like that for a number of seconds. I was watching from on campus without binoculars or stopwatch. A couple of minutes later was a nice flashing pass of UFO 2 Rk (22788, 93-056B), probably +2 maxima. Now I'd better get going home so I can watch "Superbird something" if it's still clear enough by the time I get there. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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