A splendid night for observing. Venus and Jupiter shining bright in the west. At 20:53 UT ISS made a nice pass. It was S, mag -1. Saw it also on its next pass when it slowly faded in the earthshadow. Observed till just after midnight (UT). 00- 42 B 02-05-31 22:59 LB almost S, 7 01- 56 F 02-05-31 22:09:52 LB 232.6 0.2 220 1.057 FF, 3->i A nice high pass, With the period now above 1 sec it is easier to measure. Timings at every 10th flash: 10.55 10.55 10.75 10.40 10.61 10.51 10.57 10.34 10.58 10.81 10.27 10.41 10.66 20.98 10.70 10.48 10.58 10.83 11.02 10.77 10.18 sec. 01- 56 F 02-05-31 23:51:38 LB 199.9 0.2 190 1.052 Ff, 5->i Second pass low in the NW->W. Timings every 10th flash: 10.50 10.58 10.47 10.52 10.52 11.40(11) 9.60(9) 10.48 10.32 10.90 10.19 10.68 10.60 10.53 10.54 10.32 10.64 10.43 10.71 sec. 02- 5 B 02-05-31 23:18 LB almost S, 7 02- 5 C 02-05-31 21:56 LB S, 6 02- 5 E 02-05-31 23:55 LB S, 6 Three of the latest Iridiums, no flaring. 02- 9 B 02-05-31 21:30 LB S, 5 02- 21 B 02-05-31 21:38 LB S, 4 When first seeing this sat it was followed by another sat at about 8 degrees, just a bit more than the FOV in my 7x35 bino. The second sat was also S, 4 at first but dimmed towards zenith and became inv after zenith. 76- 19 A 02-05-31 22:53:27 LB 148.5 0.2 30 4.95 FF, 4->i Several flashes were almost inv. Later in the pass rapid trains of flashes were seen. Timings: 9.96 9.88 4.90 4.91 4.94 4.92 5.00 19.84 4.98 4.88 9.88 1.90 42.67(rapid flashes) 4.93 4.89 9.98 sec. 82- 25 A 02-05-31 23:21 LB S, 4 90- 10 A 02-05-31 23:10 LB almost S, 5 90- 17 B 02-05-31 22:48:37 LB 94.2 0.5 4 23.6 AA, 5->i Timings: 23.15 22.31 21.61 27.14 sec. 91- 68 G 02-05-31 21:48:14 LB 111.5 0.2 18 6.19 FF, 5->i Nice flashing, but hard to get good timings: 6.42 5.66 5.14 6.21 4.18 4.74 6.08 6.45 5.80 13.76 5.71 5.86 6.29 6.36 4.88 3.10 2.61 2.72 3.07 6.47 sec. 92- 36 B 02-05-31 23:33 LB almost s, 7 92- 76 B 02-06-01 00:05 LB slowly var 4->5 93- 16 B 02-05-31 23:37 LB S, 4 96- 17 B 02-05-31 22:27 LB slowly var, 6->i 96- 52 B 02-05-31 22:36:57 LB 108.7 0.5 4 27.2 AA, 5->i Timings: 27.34 26.71 54.64 sec. 98- 43 G 02-05-31 22:00 LB S, 3 2002: 351 observations PPAS: 12222 observations Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst Medemblik 52.76350 N 5.09114 E 2 m ASL http://www.home.zonnet.nl/leobarhorst/index.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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/sat/seesat/seesatindex.html
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