Last night with binoculars I spotted a pair of flashes near the edge of my field of fiew. These flashes were about 1 second apart and approx. +6 mag. Later I saw another pair spaced about the same. About two minutes later I saw a single flash. Then nothing after that. Each instance was a little west of the previous. Afterwards I identified two viable candidates: Intsat 4-3 (#5709) and Gorizont 3 r/b (#11684). Both of these are in the "graveyard" near-geosynchronous orbit. My problem is they had nearly identical tracks for me so I have no idea which one was the culprit. I'm wondering if anyone else has seen either of these do any kind of flashing. 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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