Obs 23 February 2004

From: Mir16609@aol.com
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 12:52:56 EST

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    In PPAS format:
    94-056 A 04-02-23 01:52:31.00JDG  68.0 0.3  32  2.12 +7.0->inv
    93-077 A 04-02-23 02:59:32.70JDG1326.2 0.5  13 102.0 +3.0->inv
    
    ETS-6 seemed to have a pattern of 3 dim flashes followed by a
    brighter flash (+7mag?)
     
    For Telstar 401 I missed the beginning of the flash session. 
    The initial flashes were about .5 sec of a gradual build up, 
    then about 0.25 sec of +3.0 mag light.  Very impressive. 
    Towards the end of the session, the flashes were quite
    short.  I missed one flash, no doubt, because it was
    difficult to pick up a short flash in a rich star field.
     
    Location = Carrs Mill Park, Maryland - 39.3181 N, 77.0542 177
    mALS
    
    Flash times may be found here:
    http://www.geocities.com/iss25544/geo20040223.txt
     
    ETS-6
    1 23230U 94056A   04049.93224894  .00000000  00000-0  10000-3 0  1909
    2 23230  11.7279 176.3565 4960783  11.6888 356.3443  1.67090110 57961
    Telstar 401 
    1 22927U 93077A   04050.07275094 -.00000136  00000-0  00000+0 0  9834
    2 22927   5.7168  73.2626 0007006 291.0977  69.0007  1.00285630 36810
    
    -- 
    Cheers,
    Don Gardner  39.1799 N, 76.8406 W, 100m ASL
    http://hometown.aol.com/mir16609/
    http://www.howardastro.org/
    
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