LB obs 2006 Jan 3 morning

From: Leo Barhorst (leobarhorst@zonnet.nl)
Date: Tue Jan 03 2006 - 06:00:04 EST

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    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
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