Ted wrote: > If this was ADEOS 2, then it was unusually bright. It predicted > magnitude was about 5. ADEOS 2 was one of the ones I listed in June of last year as being visible without binoculars when in or near Ursa Major on northbound evening passes: http://satobs.org/seesat/Jun-2003/0214.html I'm not sure how many sun-synch objects (as well as others) I've seen flare in that region of the sky on northbound passes on summer evenings. No doubt this is latitude dependent. I think it's probably predictable for 3-axis stabilized sunsynch ones. It's perhaps interesting that the NOSS 2-1, 2-2, and 2-3 triplets flare over here on southbound evening passes during the same season. 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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