Brad Young wrote: >Just as a note, we in Tulsa saw a double HST flare both Fri and Sat nights >at the "9:25 ish" pass. But nothing last night, not even a good view of HST >at 3rd magnitude. Did you see HST and the UNID? or was it a second flare of >HST? I know I was pleasently surprised when I figured out it was the same >object. >I suggested to the Astronomy Club of Tulsa gathering that both nights the >first (and brighter, -2 mag) flare seemed to be right when HST was due south >of Comet Tempel, almost as if it was "looking at it". I think I saw some >mention of this earlier on this list - coincidence? If the flares were to be caused by the Aft Skirt (bottom) of the HST then the HST would not have pointed at Comet Tempel 1 at the time as the target declination necessary for such a flare would have been between -28° and -34° (depending on when exactly the flare occurred). I've checked the HST timeline for this week. For those targets that I could figure out their coordinates I checked whether the respective pointings would result in Aft Skirt flares. I came up empty handed most of the time. The few flares I found were all under marginal conditions or in areas where I would not expect SeeSatL presence (like Southern Sudan). Observers in the US I can offer a daytime flare on July 16 at 22:56:45 UTC well to the North of Galveston, TX (at lat.28.17°, long -96.95°) or 3:15 minutes later at the Southern tip of Florida at (25.15°, -80.57°) while the HST is scheduled to look at Comet Tempel 1 again. I don't know whether anyone is even remotely interested in trying to look for it. Gerhard HOLTKAMP Darmstadt, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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