Telstar 401 (93-077A, 22927) is flashing in the evening again. It would be nice if someone some hundreds if not a thousand or two km from Austin could see it flashing also. I expect at least half a dozen up to possibly ten one-power flashes tonight roughly around 8:40-9:00 PM CST (2:40-3:00 UTC), but we don't know when, relatively, it will flash in locations far away from here. The episodes Saturday and last night were just to the east of the belt of Orion, roughly RA 6:00, Dec -4 (2000). It flashes about 10-15 minutes earlier from night to night. The flash period is now about 101.5 seconds, ten seconds shorter than in November-December. 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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