Tuesday evening at about 9:40 PM (2:40 UTC on July 7) while looking for something else I happened to see something flashing roughly every 12 seconds or so (failed to have my stopwatch going at the time) and soon realized it was stationary. When first seen it was about magnitude +5, I think. After about eight minutes it had faded to +7, and I let it go. Findsat identified it as LES 8 (76-023A, 08746). It was in the vicinity of RA 14:45, Dec +8.1 when I first saw it. This was seen from BCRC -- 30.316N, 97.866W. It has a peculiar history in the PPAS database, in that some years ago its flash period was over two minutes, but in the last couple of years it's been seen with a flash period of less than 20 seconds. Ed Cannon - Austin, Texas, USA _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l
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