Tuesday evening (July 12 UTC) I watched Superbird A (89-041A, 20040) from about 3:12:50 until 3:19:17. Its flash episode went quite close to, if not across, M16, just a little west of gamma Scuti. Its brightest flashes were about magnitude +4.0 for sure, maybe a few of them were brighter. Its episode begins a minute or two later per night, depending on where you are. It's the most predictable of the short-episode flashing geosynchs. Right now TDF 2 (90-063A, 20705) and Intelsat 512 (85-087A, 16101) are both passing over the Americas, and both can give one-power flashes, but it's been a long time since I've seen either of them. But when Superbird A comes around, for years now, it's there doing its thing just as expected. Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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