AURA seen again, but varying?

From: Edward S Light (edlight@juno.com)
Date: Sat Jul 17 2004 - 11:30:27 EDT

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    This morning, using 10x50 binoculars, I saw another pass of the newly-
launched Aura satellite (28376 04-026A). This time, it was low in the
west
in a foggy, hazy sky, but unlike my observations of 2004 07 16, this time
it seemed to be varying with a range of perhaps one magnitude or so in a
period of "a few seconds."  The derived quicksat intrinsic/SkyMap
standard magnitudes were about +4.1 / +5.4 .  The IOD-format for a point
at maximum apparent brightness:

28376 04 026A   0000 P 20040717075432000 28                      M+054 03
      

NB: The station location "0000" is a dummy value; the actual observing
position was within a few meters of 40.1075N, 074.2312W, +24 m.

Clear and dark skies!
   Ed Light

Lakewood, NJ, USA

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