Not long after getting to the site, I was looking for an old Cosmos Rk low in the east, and there was a slow-moving northbound flashing object there also. It was flashing about every 2.35 seconds. Mike thought the brightest flash was about -2. Wow! A very neat "pre-id". A couple of hours later I had predictions for one I had seen flashing a few months ago. I found it, and it got brighter and brighter, until it did three consecutive flashes well into negative magnitudes, the brightest at least -3 I'm sure. After watching it some more, I checked my stopwatch. The flash period was about 2.35 seconds! It must be the same object as the pre-id two hours before! Findsat confirmed that the early one was the same object, Globalstar 23 (99-004A, 25621). Low in the east it flashed to about -2 at a range of over 2400 km (1500 miles) and to -3 at 1600 km (1000 miles)! Wow! PPAS: 99- 4 A 04-07-27 04:24:41 EC 271.3 0.4 115 2.359 -3->i Several nights ago, maybe two weeks, when it exited eclipse low in the northeast, I couldn't find it. Globalstars are generally not hard to see with 8x42 on good passes in spite of their smallish size and relatively high orbit. Cosmos 2406 Rk (28353) 04- 21 B 04-07-27 02:42:58 EC 124.1 0.2 201 0.617 +4->i 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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