Iridium 920 (24871, 97-34C) made another "many one-power flashes" pass last night (early July 25 UTC), a few perhaps +0. The supercycle was evident; it flashed a number of times, disappeared for a few seconds, and then returned to flashing again. It also "sparkled" during parts of the pass, flashing too fast to count, but its flash period seems to be about 1.07 seconds. Okean-O Rk (25861, 99-39B) was easily visible going north during Ir 920's pass. SPOT 3 (22823, 93-61A) exhibited some nice one-power flashes long past culmination, very low in the northwest. Celestis (24780; highly retrograde, low-inclination mausoleum) 97- 18 B 00-07-25 03:03:50 EC 67.4 0.4 8 8.4 mag +6.0->inv GPS 2-22 PKM (22781) -- not many cycles timed, so large error value 93- 54 C 00-07-25 03:09:17 EC 35.0 1.5 6 5.8 mag +6.0->inv Gorizont 16 (19397) 88- 71 A 00-07-25 04:28:43 EC 5236.5 0.2 56 93.509 mag +5.0->inv I observed ASTRO-D/ASCA/Asuka (22521, 93-11A) with binoculars in twilight and was not able to discern any variation. I looked unsuccessfully for flashing Molniya 3-38 (20646, 90-52A). Observing location: 30.314N, 97.866W, 280m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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