hello all, on Friday and Sunday evening I was able to observe some high satellites. Because Gorizont 23 is back over Europe, I tried in on both evenings, with a limiting magnitude through my scope of about 10.5. Each time nothing was detected. (Friday July 16, between 21h30m and 21h40m UT and Sunday July 18, between 22h45 and 22h55m). When I was moving my scope to the position of Gorizont 23 on Sunday, I suddenly noticed a short flash about 1 degree before Gorizont 23. After more than a minute (so more than Gorizont's 50 seconds) another flash was noticed and so on... I checked the predictions and immediately saw that Raduga 27 = 91-14 A = 21132 was back, after Jason Hatton "lost" it about one month ago because too faint. It was flashing clearly to mag +8. More observations (from other places) are needed to find out how the rotation axis is behaving. [Observation made from Ostend, 2d 55m E, 51d 22m N]. In contrast with Gorizont 23, which has been accelerating with a perfectly linear rate, the acceleration of Raduga 27 slows down (see the data below). The flashing period was going down with about 0.39 s/day during May, 0.30 s/day during June and now with about 0.23 s/day. 91- 14 A 99-05-09 21:02:17.5 JPH1785.6 0.1 20 89.28 A'A' mag+5->inv vm 91- 14 A 99-05-19 21:14:38.6 JPH1280.5 0.2 15 85.37 A'A' mag+6->inv 91- 14 A 99-05-23 21:40 JPH1342.4 0.2 16 83.90 A'A' mag+6->inv 91- 14 A 99-06-04 20:44:42 JPH 957.5 0.2 12 79.79 A'A' mag+6->inv 91- 14 A 99-06-08 20:45:02.8 JPH1177.9 0.2 15 78.52 A'A' mag+6->inv 91- 14 A 99-06-10 20:49:09.5 JPH1558.4 0.2 20 77.92 F'or A' vm mag+6->inv 91- 14 A 99-06-11 21:05:29.9 JPH2794.8 0.2 36 77.63 A'or F' mag+6->inv vm 91- 14 A 99-06-11 22:39:56.5 JPH2483.8 0.2 32 77.62 F'or A' vm mag+8->inv 91- 14 A 99-06-13 20:46:40.3 JPH1387.0 0.2 18 77.05 F'or A' vm mag+8->inv 91- 14 A 99-06-16 20:41:25.9 JPH 914.1 0.2 12 76.18 F'F mag+9->inv 91- 14 A 99-07-18 22:36 KJ 1239.7 0.1 18 68.87 FF, mag +8->inv happy observing, Kurt Jonckheere (kjon@mail.dma.be)