Good evening to all, I took a break tonight to watch the sky on a beautiful and warm evening. My girlfriend noticed a flaring satellite at around 22:07 EDT in Bootes and I followed it at 1x for a while. At first I thought it was an Iridium : same speed and type of flare with a mag of about 0. But then I saw it flare again rapidly in Ursa Major at 22:10. It stayed visible at mag 4 to 5 between the flares. My search produced only one good match : USA 129, #24680. Is it really tumbling and since when ? Or is it another object or simply was I lucky to see some flares from this one without the satellite tumbling... Dan -- Daniel Deak Webmestre, site Obsat L'Avenir, Quebec COSPAR site 1747 : 45.7275°N, 72.3526°W, 191 m., UTC-4:00 Site en francais sur les satellites: French-language satellite web site : http://www.obsat.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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