Last night I found ETS 6 (94-056A, 23230) flashing about +5 to +6 at about 2:43 (RA 7:30) and followed it for over 30 minutes to about RA 10:00, where it faded out due to extinction and/or cirrus clouds. In the last few minutes before it faded out, some of the flashes were visible without binoculars, the brightest about +2 I suppose. The range at the time was about 15,000 km. I kind of wonder if it was visible in the eastern hemisphere at the same time. PPAS: 94- 56 A 04-02-08 02:57:32 EC 860.8 0.2 100 8.608 +2->inv OAO 3 (Copernicus, 72-065A, 06153) flared to at least -2 if not -3 in the NNE. ISS passed above Venus on its second pass, but I missed the first one as it was very early in twilight. There's a report (four positions) of an unid with a 5-second flash period, by a UK NEO observer here (no registration required to read it): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mpml/message/11609 "VFMO" means "very fast moving object" to minor planet observers. Tony Beresford confirmed it as unid, not found in the alldat.tle file. OT: We saw comet 2002 T7 in Mike's scope, in spite of the conditions (cirrus, but a few minute before moonrise). Previous two weeks and last night, I haven't yet been able to see it with binoculars. BCRC site: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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