Last night was another night of fair to poor cloudy weather (and bright moonlight!), but some observing was possible. Mike McCants acquired GSTAR 1 (15677, 85-35A) and later 00653A (90007) with his telescope set up in front of his house. I observed 00653A off and on in the scope from about 3:13:54.5 to about 3:28:52.5 June 15 UTC. I hope that some folks to our east can acquire it, as it's going to be in twilight here soon. TOPEX (22076, 92-52A) flared to about +0 for at least 20 to 30 seconds around 4:18:31, approximately between Arcturus and the end of the handle of the Big Dipper (eta UMa). A small cloud went in front of it, and it emerged at +3.0 or fainter at best and soon disappeared from one-power view. SPOT 3 (22823, 93-61A) did a very nice one-power flashing pass near the zenith. I found good old Ajisai/EGP (16908, 86-61A) with binocs. Later from outside my apartment I watched TDF 2 (20705, 90-63A) with binoculars from about 5:11:57 to about 5:43:38 (after midnight local time), with some breaks due to passing low clouds. It's drifting fairly rapidly to the west and will be visible from here only a very few more nights. Observing locations: 30.33N, 97.76W and 30.31N, 97.73W, 150m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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