From Wednesday evening March 13 local time (the night of the Flaring Geosynch Marathon): Fengyun 1A Rk (19468 -- not currently included in BWGS program.rob file), with about 11.1-second flash period: 88- 80 B 02-03-13 02:16:38 EC 155.7 2.0 14 11.1 MOS 1-A (17527), which can flash very brightly about every 15.6 seconds, seems to flash best when it is low in the west on evening passes. Some secondary half-period tumbles were visible: 87- 18 A 02-03-13 02:05:07 EC 155.8 0.4 10 15.58 mag 0->inv Gorizont 23 (21533) was easy in 10x50 binoculars, flashing about every 53.9 seconds, and I was able to find it just as easily again over 100 minutes later: 91- 46 A 02-03-13 05:18:41 EC 1078.3 0.2 20 53.92 SPOT 3 (22823, 93-061A) is doing bright flashes when in the northeast on its evening passes, but it's not easy to get a flash period from them. Observing site was BCRC: 30.315N. 97.866W, 280m. The weather hasn't been very favorable since. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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