Anthony wrote: > We are coming up again to the magic week in October when many > satellites will gain magnitude ... do you have any specific > date(s) for this year's opportunity? That's "flaring geosynch" or "flaring geosat" season and applies to many operational geostationary satellites, when quite a few of them can be seen with 10x50 binoculars and a few without magnification. The best dates to look vary by latitude. The prime time for latitude 30 north is the first week of October, but actually last year I began to see some of them quite a bit before that. This message from last September includes the September equinox season "calendar" originally posted by Rainer Kresken in 1999: http://satobs.org/seesat/Sep-2001/0021.html The link there to Jason Hatton's site doesn't work. The new location of his section about flaring operational geosynchs is: http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/hattonjasonp/hasohp//GEO.HTML#Operational In March Mike McCants spotted (and I got to see also!) about 60 geosats in one long session; most of them were flaring brighter than usual, which made them easier to find: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Mar-2002/0134.html 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://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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