PPAS reports on Gorizont 13 (86-090A, 17083) and 29 (93-072A, 22907): 86- 90 A 04-06-14 05:02:23 EC 864.0 0.2 10 86.40 +5.5->inv 93- 72 A 04-06-14 05:54:38 EC 962.6 0.3 12 80.22 +6.0->inv With Mike's 8-inch (200mm) scope, Gorizont 29 had a tertiary maximum at 1/4 cycle, a long secondary at 1/2 cycle, and was nearly invisible for the last quarter of each cycle. We had very annoying clouds for quite a while, and they prevented observing Superbird A. Lightning flashes were visible to the SSW. After 11:00 PM local time the sky cleared and was very nice until we left after 1:00 AM. In the vicinity of USA 129 in the northeast, there was a first magnitude object going straight down. It appears that this was NOSS 5(D) (83-056D, 14144), almost always a very faint object. USA 129 went a few degrees above it, as seen with 8x42 binoculars. Iridium 44 (97-077B, 25078) was tumbling, but the clicks that I got seem to be completely random: 17.05, 18.28, 14.55, 31.00, 9.85, 14.32, 34.18, 24.99, 2.01. At least a few of those were very bright. BCRC site: 30.315N, 97.866W, 280m. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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