Mike had predictions for TiPS (96-029F, 23937) on a very favorable pass. I was able to see quite a few end-mass flashes with my 8x42, some at least as bright as +5. Some of the time both of the end masses may have been bright enough to see together with 8x42. On to the NNE, I got to see it with the 200mm (8-inch) scope -- very neat! TDF 2 (90-063A, 20705) was visible with my 8x42 most of the time from about 4:59:24 until 5:19:10 July 15 UTC. I had looked for it without seeing it at about 4:51 UTC. It had some sort of phase shift, in that it went invisible for two or three minutes. (Mike could see it down at +10 or so with his telescope.) Then it brightened again, plus during the second bright portion, it did a short series of bright double flashes, with just .20 to .25 second separating them. The brightest flashes were at least +4.0. Its episodes are something like 20 minutes later from night to night. Iridium 11 "?" and Iridium 4 flared in parallel, with both about a magnitude fainter than predicted. I could not find the NOSS 2-1 triplets -- perplexing. The sky was very nice; the Milky Way was faintly visible. I saw the NOSS 2-3 triplets on both early and late passes. NOSS 3-2 (03-054A and C, 28095 and 28097) were visible without binoculars, though they weren't very bright. 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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