On both Friday and Saturday (03-10 and 03-11 local), I observed a near-geo flasher where Gorizont 4 (11841, 80-49A) was predicted to be. Friday evening, 00-03-10 at 22:00 PST (00-03-11, 06:00 UTC), I found it 2 degrees above beta CMi. The flashes were about mag +7, and the period was about 124 seconds. The only other satellite that came close was Anik A1 (06278, 72-90A), but I don't believe that this one is capable of producing flashes visible in the 10x50's that were used for the observation. PPAS 80- 49 A 00-03-11 07:18:06 SDL 3848.3 0.5 31 124.14 mag 7->inv, ID? 80- 49 A 00-03-12 06:49:00 SDL 3725.8 0.5 30 124.19 mag 7->inv, ID? As Ed Cannon mentioned, GSTAR 3 may be producing a few flashes that are visible at 1X. PPAS 88- 81 A 00-03-10 04:44:20 SDL 4346.7 0.5 30 144.89 vm, +/- 0.02 88- 81 A 00-03-11 04:41:35 SDL 4490.9 0.3 31 144.87 vm, mag 4 to 5->inv. Regards. Steve LaLumondiere 33.8202, -118.3165 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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