As i was looking for Envisat at 1X to no avail so i started looking at the night sky when i spotted a flash out of the corner of my eye near Jupiter. I then saw another flash almost as bright as Jupiter approx 5 deg below the planet at 06:01:51 25 Mar UTC +/- 3 sec. Az 255 deg El 35 deg. I followed the object at 1x as there were several other visible, but not as bright flashes from it and then i followed it with my 10x50s. The flash pattern seemed regular however i couldn't get an accurate timing as the magnitude varied which made it hard to count however i got about 5 sec between flashes. The object was barely visible in my 10x50s when not flashing and i was able to established it's track from S (180) to NW (330) roughly. The only object i have found to match the track is IRS-P2 #23323 94068A. Jari 49.40N 125.00W 30m ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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