Tony Beresford (starman@camtech.net.au) wrote: > the search region Ed cannon is referring to has a width of at least > 20 degrees. And just so as to not take credit where it's not due, in my case it's not anything so methodical as actually searching the Clarke Belt for unknown objects or objects not known to be flashing! What happens is I'm looking for a specific known object up there, a flashing Gorizont or Yuri or Superbird A or something like that, and then in binoculars (or even one-power a couple of times) I see a flash in the "wrong" position, that has to be something else. The problem the previous couple of nights was that there was only one flash. I kept watching a while, gave my neck a rest (due to using handheld binoculars) and looked some more and didn't see another one. Time to get a mount!? I think two nights ago it was either Gorizont 15 (or was the candidate Raduga 21?) or one of the Yuris. Last night it might have been COMETS, which my cousin-in-law and I saw flash very brightly some months ago. 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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