On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ed Cannon wrote: > After getting back to my apartment, without magnification I > was able to see nine flashes from Telstar 401 (93-077A, > 22927), two or three of them seemingly comparable to Rigel > in magnitude. A neighbor also saw two of them. I watched > four more fainter ones with binoculars. The part of the > episode that I saw was from about 3:23:05 to 3:51:07 Jan 14 > UTC (last one about twelve minutes earlier than the previous > night). There seems to be an alternating brighter-fainter > pattern after the brightest ones, so that I did not see the > next-to-last flash. PPAS: > > 93- 77 A 02-01-14 03:51:07 EC 1562.2 0.3 13 120.17 +0.5?->inv I observed Telstar 401 last night, coincidently at almost exactly the same time period (03:23 to 03:51)! I timed 6 periods with the naked eye from 03:27 to 03:39 (720.8 sec) giving 120.13 sec/period. All the flashes were about as bright as Rigel except the 03:39 flash which was about +3. I could only see the flashes with binoculars after that. The cold drove me inside at 03:52 or so since I was without a jacket. Returning outside around 04:04 I failed to see any more flashes. I then turned my binoculars toward Gorizont 23. Through binoculars I saw a +4-ish flash but it didn't seem to be in quite the right place. Eventually I saw another flash (at least 2 minutes later). It was definitely east of where I was expecting it. Back inside I went. I determined the sat must have been ASC 1. Going back outside I looked for more flashes but didn't see any. These two flashes would have been about in the 04:06 - 04:10 time frame. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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