It appears that the flash period of Intelsat 512 (85-087A, 16101) is decreasing about half a second per night: 85- 87 A 01-07-30 04:15:07.3 EC 345.6 0.2 13 26.59 +4->inv 85- 87 A 01-07-28 03:56:28.7 EC 240.3 0.2 9 26.70 +4->inv 85- 87 A 01-07-25 03:10:49.9 EC 295.3 0.2 11 26.84 +4->inv It flashes brightly about 10-15 minutes per night, beginning about 13 minutes or so later from night to night. Last night's phase shift was around 4:16 UTC (11:16 Central Daylight Time USA) for Austin. I wonder if I'm being too conservative on the magnitude of the maxima; some of them last night might possibly have been visible without magnification even with the moonlight. 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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