Last Friday evening while on my almost annual trip out to west Texas (nicely dark skies among other things), I was at McDonald Observatory at one of their weekly public star parties. Some minutes after a flash had caught the corner of my eye I turned my attention to the sky region where I thought I had seen the flash and soon saw another flash. Eventually I saw a series of flashes that varied from +3 up to +0, with a 36.3 second period. Didn't have a clue what it was. Last night after getting back home I deduced that the flasher was either Superbird B1 (likely) or rocket body 96-034D (less likely). Now I know it was Superbird B1. PPAS: 92-010A 05-12-31 02:23 RF 1197 1.0 33 36.28 F'-,+0/+3->inv 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." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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