Molniya 3-51 Rk (01-030B, 26868), an interesting tumbler, appeared to have about a 13.9-second flash period. 01- 30 B 01-07-26 03:00:42.5 EC 111.0 1.0 8 13.9 +4->inv, alt. minima "alt. minima" -- I don't know how to say that it displayed a deep (invisible) minimum alternating with a shallow (visible) minimum. The maxima seemed equal and kind of flat; some of the "shallow" minima were hard to distinguish. Here are the times I got: 3.99, 6.11, 3.63 3.81, 6.03, 3.87 4.05, 5.96, 3.64 3.59, 35.00, 3.86 2.79, 6.83, 3.67 3.40, 6.99, 3.73 The earlier pass of another piece, 26869/01-030C, was behind clouds. Intelsat 512 (85-087A, 16101) behaving very nicely. Last night I first got it at about 3:20:40.5 and finally lost it -- after a gap in the middle when I couldn't see it (and during which there was a phase shift) -- at about 3:31:10.0. It's bright, very easy in 10x50 binocs and very possibly one-power under reasonable conditions. 85- 87 A 01-07-26 03:31:10.0 EC 241.1 0.3 9 26.79 +4->inv 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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