Observations from Bugaldie (31d07'32"S,149d06'52"E,AGD, 390m) 96072A yyyy mmm dd hh mm ss.ss hh mm.m ddd mm 1997 Jan 13 11 43 26.58 12 12.0 -64 31 1997 Jan 13 11 44 50.50 10 16.2 -59 53 1997 Jan 13 13 20 41.30 23 26.6 -52 43 1997 Jan 13 13 23 36.48 01 09.0 -25 54 at about 1320.4 UT there was a slow flash reaching mag +2.5 96072B The following scraps are a result or being somewhat rusty and also straightforward incompetence 1997 Jan 13 12 43 22.71 20 57.9 -68 26 or 1997 Jan 13 12 43 22.71 21 01.5 -68 13 There is still the outside possibility that the satellite passed over a different star still! I obtained another "fix" but then noted I had restarted the split time rather than stop it. In the confusion, I again forgot what star it passed close to. The satellite passed thro either RA 23 31.0 Dec -62 12 or RA 23 33.9 Dec -61 39 just a few seconds before complete fadeout in eclipse. The flash period was of the order of 1 min, with 1 very obvious sharp flash early on. Perhaps someone can extract something from this mess! Cheers, Rob McNaught