In the last several night I've tried timing Feng Yun 1A Rk (19468, a.k.a. FY 1-1 Rk, or CZ-4 1 R/B, etc.) four or five times and obtained somewhat different results each time. Last night (Friday evening June 22 local time) Mike McCants got about 45 seconds, I think, and finally I got three cycles and this: 88- 80 B 01-06-23 03:05:58 EC 137.9 1.0 3 46.0 +5->inv (I probably should have put 3 or 4 seconds error instead of just 1 second.) Cosmos 1777 Rk (16953) tumbled slowly last night. As I only got one cycle of its long period, this is rough: 86- 70 B 01-06-23 03:19:59 EC 65.9 9.0 1 66 +5->inv Mike got FAST (24285, 96-049A) in his telescope. I don't think I had ever seen it before. It's a "Wow!" object! Mike got about 0.6 second period, and before the pass was over, it did some +4 flashes! There were variable high, thin clouds through the whole session, but never mind, I had some UNIDs anyway.... BCRC location: 30.3157N, 97.8663W, 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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