Last night Mike McCants observed Yuri 3B flashing to +5 after 4:00 UTC with a period (accelerated) of about 70.5 seconds -- however with it missing irregularly at some of the expected times. (I got a look also. Mike would count down, and sometimes it would not show. Then maybe it would show 70.5 seconds later!) This is a westward-drifting near-geosynchronous object currently west of our local meridian. Elements from mccants.tle file: Yuri 3B 5.0 2.0 0.0 5.0 d 1.6 1 21668U 91060A 00176.61577651 .00000022 00000-0 00000+0 0 3011 2 21668 2.0938 32.9268 0006232 308.9128 53.0817 0.98787588 35632 Mike looked unsuccessfully, using the 8-inch telescope, for any sign of Gorizont 14. I'm pretty sure that I have seen it sometimes easily in binoculars: Gorizont 14 3.0 0.0 0.0 6.0 d 4.1 1 17969U 87040A 00176.46970952 -.00000136 00000-0 10000-3 0 7800 2 17969 10.6703 38.5708 0028941 323.4215 36.3669 0.97658283 27196 I was fortunate to find 90007/00653A with my binoculars and observe a few flashes before it grew too faint. This was around 2:30 UTC -- long before the end of twilight. Observing location: 30.314N, 97.866W, 280m. 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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