07529, NOAA 4: seen as a bright, slow unid that crossed with Iridium 44. Its maxima were quick (about .3 second) doubles. PPAS report: 74- 89 A 05-06-30 03:30:12 EC 219.5 0.3 14 15.68 +4.0->i double maxima Worth mentioning: ERS 2 (95-021A, 23560) was trailing and catching up with SPOT 5 (02-021A, 27421), and both were visible without binoculars for a minute or more, just a few degrees apart and closing. This was in the vicinity of the Big Dipper (UMa). DM-F3 (00-048A, 26475) way too bright again. (It's supposed to be a 2m-by-1m spool-shaped thing with the mass profile of Orion 3, but recently it's been +3 at surprising distances from here.) USA 129 and Lacrosse 4 crossed on both passes! (I.e., both were seen at the same time in the FOV of my binoculars, both times.) USA 32 (88-078A, 19460) -- wonderful +2 sparkles for ten seconds or so near its culmination. It was visible without binoculars for a minute or more. While waiting for a third flash from GSTAR 3, I saw another flash -- a slow-moving eastbound object. It tumbled slowly with bright, broad maxima. I tracked it from about azimuth 192 to near Altair, maybe 17 or 18 minutes. It turned out to be a good old Long March, Shi Jian 4 Rk (94-010C, 22997). Managed to see good old Superbird A for a couple of minutes again in spite of it having a lot of competition. Nice ISS pass in the NW. Somewhat surprisingly bright HST pass very low in the south. Observing site was BCRC: 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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