This was a pre-sunrise pass, NNW to ESE, max elevation 31 degrees. I picked it up visually (naked eye) while ten degrees or so west in azimuth of Polaris (~350 degrees azimuth). As it passed under Polaris it appeared to be a similar magnitude. About twenty seconds later I noticed that it was dimmer. It continued to dim until it approached ENE. By that time I had given up on it showing a periodic fluctuation in brightness and I waiting to see it go underneath a star that was almost due east. I glanced away temporarily and when I looked again it had brightened significantly. This was around 13:21:30 UT (Not exact time). When I went inside and checked on the pass I realized that I had forgotten about flaring. It is possible that this was a long flare but there is no guarantee that it was. Tomorrow there is a similar pass about 20 minutes earlier so I will be looking for a possible flare in the same area. Ron Lee ___________________________________ Sent using PCI Broadband webmail _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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