I have confirmed milstar 6 is what I would call flaring. I would estimate milstar 6 was mag 8.2 at 1:44 am EDT ( June 26 ) So a approx position of 17 h 56 min R.A - 7 Deg 15 min Dec A very happy sat observer. I be watching this one a heck of lot:) Go Milstar! I also observed GEOS 8 flashing. GOES 8 1 23051U 94022A 04174.76671880 -.00000073 00000-0 00000+0 0 3711 2 23051 1.0397 113.8796 0004949 42.7447 316.0496 0.98904606 44719 I saw two flashes from it. The one I captured on video, is sometime around 6:10 UTC ( June 26 ) in the area of 18 h 14 m R.A -6 deg 18 min Dec See http://ca.geocities.com/kfetter/geos8.mpg For the video of it flash. It's in MPEG 2 format. Real Player should play it. Real player is found at http://www.real.com/ Look to the upper right for the flash. A very good night for me. Kevin __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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