Tony- It was stationary to me. I suppose it was possible there were 2 (or 4) flashes within a larger rotational period but there were no secondary or smaller flashes, just a very bright, consistent flash every 22 seconds. I'll try again tonight if the weather holds up... MC > Tony Beresford <dberesford@adam.com.au> wrote: > At 15:30 17/06/06, Mike Chini wrote: > >Amazed that I could see M17 from light polluted NYC > >with my Obie 15x70's, I lingered there a while and > >suddenly saw a flashing geo sync at about 1:30 > (6:30 > >UT) this morning. It had a flash period of about > 22 - > >23 seconds. > > > >RA 18h 21m > >Dec -16deg 43' > > > >Flashed consistenly at about 22 seconds and was > >consistently bright. > >Seemed to be stationary. My location is 40.58N > >-74.16W. > Mike, your local clocks are running 4 hours behind > Ut at moment > so the time should be 5:30UT. > Two old comsats in the vicinity Mike, > 87 40A 17969 gorizont 14 > 90 16A 20499 Raduga 25 > 87 40A is a well known near GEO flasher. > PPAS observations show both a 87 and 43.5 > second period, may be another surface comes into > play > to make it near 22 seconds? > 90 16a is not reported in the PPAS at all. > You said it didnt move, relative to you or the > stars? > Tony Beresford > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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