Obs 8 February

From: Mir16609@aol.com
Date: Tue Feb 08 2000 - 20:02:10 PST

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    Hello everyone.
    
    A few follow-up notes to the Globalstar burn obs.
    The burn probably began only a few seconds to my locating it at 23:16:28 UTC. 
     The wide end was towards Polaris it was oriented essentially parallel to the 
    horizon.  About 3-5 seconds after the burn ceased, the entire cloud was 
    indistinguishable from the haze and twilight (23:16:50).  Polaris was the 
    only star visible in that part of the sky.
    
    2 More Gorizont 17 obs:
    89- 04 A 00-02-07 00:57:02.6 JDG 653.6 0.3   8 81.70  +5.0->inv
    89- 04 A 00-02-09 01:21:24.5 JDG 980.5 0.3  12 81.71  +5.5->inv
    
    It has become clear to me is that my obs from last Saturday evening was 
    actually some bright half period flashes.   The PPAS report should change 
    from:
    89- 04 A 00-02-06 02:43:10.3 JDG 817.2 0.3  20 40.86  +4.0->inv
    To:
    89- 04 A 00-02-06 02:43:10.3 JDG 817.2 0.3  10 81.72  F'fF'f mag+4.0->inv 
    81.72=40.86+40.86
    
    The Hubble Space Telescope made a nice +3.0 mag, 1x pass at 00:21 UTC 9 
    February.  At 21 deg above the horizon, it was a high as it ever gets at this 
    latitude.
    
    Cheers
    Don Gardner  39.1796 N, 76.8419 W, 34m ASL
    Homepage: http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/
    
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