On Sun, 3 Jun 2001 Hattonjasonp@aol.com wrote: > Last night whilst observing from Point Lobos, San Francisco at the SFAA city > star party I also had a nice observation of Gorizont 16 through my 80mm > scope. Having repaired my stopwatch since last weeks observations I managed > to time a flash period of 94.59s (timed over End of obs=05:17UT, 3rd June > 2001). The intial flashes seemed no brighter than mag +7 or +8, but by the Intrigued by Jason's flash period being slightly longer than the one I measured on May 30 (UTC), I performed another measurement last night. Starting at 02:36 UT 05 Jun I measured 43 periods in 4069.5 sec, giving a period of 94.64 sec. So the 3 recent periods are 30 May 94.50 03 Jun 94.59 05 Jun 94.64 which leads to a linear increase of .02333s per day. Now Jay Respler recently wrote: > I used HIGHFLY to see Gorizont from this latitude in Oct 95, flashing > with a 44 sec. period. Picking the middle of the month for this observation leads to a linear increase of .0246s per day (50.64s / 2059 days), very close to the above value. So I'm wondering if the flash period has been steadily increasing since 1995. Robert Fenske, Jr. rfenske@swri.edu Sw |The Taming the C*sm*s series: Southwest Research Institute /R---\ | Signal Exploitation & Geolocation Div | I | |"The Martian canals were the San Antonio,Texas USA ph:210-522-3931 \----/ | Martians' last ditch effort." ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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