Here are irregular flash times from Hai Yang 1 (02-024A, 27430), starting with zero at about 4:04:33 July 6 UTC: 4.96, 2.38, 1.46, 5.22, .59, 1.06, 6.78, 27.36, 12.95 I'm not sure what to make of those, except that maybe there's something close to 6.8 seconds, more or less. Mike had Intelsat 604 Rk (90-056C, 20669) in the telescope, and it was quite interesting with double and triple maxima, secondaries, and so on, although he got 41 seconds as the overall flash period. NOSS 2-1 (90-50 C,D,E; 20691, 20692, 20642) triangle was easily visible without binoculars for much of the pass. I was able to see a few faint flashes from FAST (96-049A, 24285), which is a spin-stabilized payload currently making near-perigee passes here. It's done one or two spectacular bright and rapid flash events for us here in the past. "You can't remember them all." (Well, I can't, anyway.) I was timing Superbird A, and I was able to see it too long (roughly 3:31-3:39, haven't transcribed the times yet) -- it caused me to forget the -8 Iridium flare prediction that I had. Sigh. BCRC: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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