A cold, frosty morning. Completely clear sky down to the horizon. Could see Sirius at less than 5 degrees elevation in between trees. Superbird A was observed at 11 degrees elevation, just above Orion's belt stars. The timings have been entered in PPASextended in order to obtain the number of periods. This is very handy when there are irregular timings, see 65-65 C, 97-52 C, 98-72 C and 05-48 C. PPASextended is an Excel spreadsheet that gives the PPAS output and also has a symplified version of Bjorn's Synodic routine. It was made by Bram, Bjorn and Leo. On my website I'll add the sheet for these obs later today. The URL explaning the numbers : http://www.satobs.org/tumble/flashpm.html#PPASformat 02- 58 F 06-01-03 05:54 LB S, 6 05- 48 C 06-01-03 06:30:58 LB 214.8 0.2 80 2.684 FF, 5->i -> 4->i Timings: 1.38 1.34 1.43 1.34 1.40 1.15 2.88 1.25 1.20 2.30 1.81 1.51 2.29 1.57 1.43 2.46 1.52 1.27 2.32 1.75 1.43 2.39 1.57 1.38 2.61 1.44 1.47 2.40 1.46 1.38 2.59 1.42 1.37 2.63 1.57 1.38 2.30 1.56 1.61 2.26 1.56 1.53 2.25 1.61 1.39 2.30 1.65 1.54 2.41 1.47 1.47 2.30 1.57 1.52 2.25 1.66 1.38 2.46 1.79 3.38 2.92 2.70 2.64 2.58 2.49 2.59 2.55 3.15 2.60 2.82 2.59 2.73 2.37 3.09 2.82 2.28 2.70 2.77 2.60 2.60 2.83 2.73 2.78 2.68 2.68 2.46 2.87 2.60 2.73 2.59 2.63 2.61 2.83 2.58 2.85 2.48 2.56 2.89 2.81 2.67 sec. Became more regular after culmination. Period is most likely 5.368 sec; a combined period. See the 2 graphs on my webpage. 65- 65 C 06-01-03 04:34:00 LB 78.9 0.2 22 3.59 FF, 5->i Timings: 2.78 2.02 2.04 3.35 4.04 3.32 3.99 2.67 2.57 1.73 3.25 3.64 4.08 3.89 2.96 10.71 4.08 1.46 2.51 2.68 2.40 2.25 2.91 3.53 4.00 sec 78- 18 B 06-01-03 05:19:16 LB 122.3 0.2 31 3.95 Ff, 4(5)->i Timings: 3.82 3.96 3.86 4.00 3.94 3.99 3.99 3.87 3.93 4.03 3.86 4.00 3.95 3.88 4.00 4.00 3.91 3.91 3.95 4.01 3.92 3.96 4.04 3.92 7.92 3.89 4.03 3.86 3.94 3.97 sec 81- 59 A 06-01-03 05:44:00 LB 90.6 0.5 5 18.1 AA, 4->i Timings: 17.31 7.76 17.94 6.69 7.41 33.48 sec 85- 97 B 06-01-03 06:02 LB S, 3 86- 19 S 06-01-03 06:14:32 LB 51.6 0.2 13 3.97 FF, 5->7 Timings: 2.15 2.15 2.00 1.81 2.04 2.34 1.59 2.08 2.13 2.00 2.17 2.18 1.76 2.03 2.27 3.08 2.18 5.51 2.92 1.84 1.60 1.80 2.01 sec 87- 53 A 06-01-03 05:11 LB S, 5 89- 41 A 05-01-03 03:52:56.72LB 232.3 0.2 21 11.06 Ff, 4(6)->i Timings: 10.97 11.12 11.00 11.06 11.02 11.12 11.02 11.13 10.94 22.13 11.19 11.01 22.06 22.17 22.19 22.17 sec Saw 1 flash before timings. 91- 32 A 06-01-03 05:59 LB AA, 4->6 97- 52 C 06-01-03 04:08:29 LB 241.0 0.5 4 60.3 AA, 4->6 Timings: 27.81 34.55 30.53 31.29 29.24 30.97 26.87 29.69 sec Like 05-48 C and 98-72 C also a Kosmos-3M 2nd stage. 97- 52 C 06-01-03 05:51:38 LB 91.8 0.5 3 30.6 AA, 4->6 Timings: 30.67 29.11 32.03 sec 98- 72 C 06-01-03 05:03:27 LB 199.4 0.5 6 33.2 AA, 4->6 Timings: 16.82 17.30 16.22 16.12 16.25 17.83 15.31 17.08 17.53 16.12 15.18 17.67 sec 2006: 22 obs PPAS: 14530 obs Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst, Medemblik NL Cospar 4252 52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL http://www.satlist.nl/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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