Re: my introduction
Jacob Nevins (jacob@spuddy.mew.co.uk)
Sun, 7 Jan 96 22:02:24 GMT
On 6th Jan Bjorn Gimle (bjorn.gimle@online.dextel.se) wrote of
my introduction:
b> Welcome !
b> I often like to try to identify unknown objects.
OK, thanks...presumably you'll need a complete set of elements
for July '94. Out of curiosity, does anyone archive old elsets?
(OIG?) Here's the details if you or anyone else want to give it
a stab:
Date: 1994-07-22
Time: 2000-2100 BST (1900-2000 GMT)
Place: 50d5m32s N, 5d31m45s W, 10-20m up
What I saw was a bright light setting in the west, northward of
where the Sun had set, moving visibly but probably not as fast
as something like Mir. For a while (less than 30 secs) it seemed
to disappear then started to flash. Afraid I didn't think to
time the period but from memory it was somewhere between one
second and three or four. The flashes appeared uniform in
brightness as far as I can recall. Since the sky was still
fairly bright (although the Sun had set from where I was there's
a hill covering 10-20 degrees of sky in that direction) the
thing's magnitude must have been comparable to Venus at its
brightest (-4 or so?).
(told you they were lousy measurements :-)