observed more bright flashes from apple geo sat

From: Kevin Fetter (kfetter@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Feb 23 2004 - 21:47:36 EST

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    This time I when outside with 10*50 binoculars. I would now say the flashes are at least around
    mag 6. I don't seem to see any data on it, in the ppas database. 
    
    I used the database downloaded from here
    
    http://users.skynet.be/satimage/bwgs/ppas10.zip
    
    APPLE
    1 12545U 81057B   04052.87959132 -.00000159  00000-0  00000+0 0  4274
    2 12545  13.7786  14.6539 0026264   9.5158 350.4876  1.00022926 40848
    
    Tonight I start to observed it when it was, around R.A 5 h 59 m Dec + 8 deg 18 m. So a time of
    around 2:17 UT ( Feb 24 ).
    
    Kevin
    
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    COSPAR Site #1775  Long 75.6910 W, Lat 44.6062 N, altitude 100 metres
    
    
    
    
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