Mike found Apple with his telescope and said it was about +6.0. It was not hard with my 8x42; some might have been +5.5. It was a degree or so north of Betelgeuse (alpha ORI) when I got it with 8x42 at about 2:25 UTC. Nice one, Kevin! A 17-second flash period is so much easier than 170! PPAS report: Apple (12545) 81- 57 B 04-02-27 02:32:04 EC 522.9 0.2 30 17.43 +6.0->inv I was hoping to have good luck trying to see the lost 90019 and remembered Telstar 401 too late. Weather permitting, I plan to start watching for it at about 1:40 Feb 28 UTC (7:40 PM Friday CST). Orion 3 (99-024A, 25727) did three or four very bright flashes. I saw one +4.5 or +4.0 flash from Yuri 3B (91-060A, 21668) but did not see another one watching as continuously as I could in the next several minutes. My notation on it from last August is "p=367.6/5", which means that towards the end of that observation, I was only seeing every fifth flash, rather than one every 73.5 seconds I saw earlier. I had a -3 flare prediction for Iridium 74. It was very far from that, more like +3. I double-checked, and it had a "P" for "penumbral" -- entering eclipse as it began to flare. Double Star 1 (03-061A, 28140) 4-second flash period was easy with 8x42. But mostly it was double-flashing, with the doubles between .5 and 1.0 second apart. In the scope it's even more interesting. Waiting with bated breath to see the polar one, scheduled to be launched in June. Intelsat 4-7 Rk (73-058B, 06797) is a very nice flasher. BCRC site: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Didn't work out for Daniel to join us. Too bad it was cloudy Saturday through Wednesday! 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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