Observations last night from Bee Caves Research Center: Object 11006 was observed to be about 5 minutes late on the elset available from OIG that is 74 days old. I have generated the following updated elset: ISEE r 5.9 2.4 0.0 5.5 d 14 1 11006U 78079C 01049.06899195 0.00000500 00000-0 30184-3 0 07 2 11006 28.2195 6.4334 1279311 194.3164 165.6827 12.17366251 08 Lacrosse 4 flared to about magnitude 0. About 10PM I put in my new eyepiece that gives a 0.6 degree field at 85x. Object 90005 (99304) (99 804A) was very easily visible flashing to magnitude 10 at alt 50, azi 234. I timed 100 cycles in 99.0 seconds for a period of 0.990. I looked low in the southwest for object 90007 and spotted a flashing object. It flashed to magnitude 11 or 12 with a period of 1.8 seconds. Ed and I tracked it for an hour, but when I got home, findsat identified it as ANIK C2 (14133, 83 59B). Ed sent me a message: >On Encylopedia Astronautica it says "Anik C2 (Telesat 7)" >is an HS 376, spin-stabilized at 50 rpm. Sat Sit Rept >says 14133 is "Nahuel I2 (Anik C2)", but E.A. says first >Nahuel was in 1997. It was put into orbit by >Space Shuttle STS-7. ETS-6 was timed at 312.4 seconds for 32 cycles = 9.76 seconds. It gave naked-eye flashes at 2:45-2:46 and again at 2:54-2:55 UT Feb 18. Orion 3 was timed at 9 cycles in 95 seconds = 10.5 seconds. Cosmos 2266 Rk (93 70B) was timed at 4 cycles in 61 seconds = 15 seconds. It seems to be going up slowly. The PPAS timings in Oct/Nov were 12 and 24 seconds. Object 08197 was observed to vary irregularly from magnitude 9 to 10. I have wondered if this is really the ETS-1 payload instead of its rocket. Apparently it is the payload. It is possible that Ed saw one naked-eye flash from TELE-X about 3:10 UT. Mike McCants ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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