Tony Bersesford wrote; >The other obvious flasher 93 20J This must be 92- 30 J The flashers seen by Penny Fisher and Aaron Brown: If they were flashing with a period of about 2 seconds they cann't have been 92- 30 J that is now at 5.83 sec 99- 39 B now at 3.83 sec 00- 6 B now at just over 1 sec (1.03) Other candidates , based on a period of about 2 seconds: 99- 22 C was 2.02 sec on May 5th 76- 19 A that is at 2.34 sec But checking this for Aarons coordinates, the sats were not visible May 27(in UT). I don't have Penny's coordinates. This are recent TLE's for both objects: UME 1 (ISS 1) 1 08709U 76019A 00146.96415740 +.00000030 +00000-0 +92368-4 0 01597 2 08709 069.6726 157.2923 0010370 136.7591 223.4337 13.70679458212508 SL-08 R/B 1 25723U 99022C 00146.94696411 +.00004474 +00000-0 +38861-3 0 01857 2 25723 048.4522 007.5958 0036373 323.3424 036.5012 14.98189444058869 Of course UME 1 (ISS 1) has nothing to do with ISS (98- 67 A) the International Space Station. For UME it was the acronym for: Ionosphere Sounding Satellite, launched by Japan on a N-1 rocket. Also its sistercraft, 78-18 B, is flashing nicely at 3.3 sec. Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst 52.767 N 5.09 E 2 m ASL ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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