Hello fellow observers. Geosats: For my latitude the periode near the spring equinox in which geosats brighten has terminated. No more objects brighter than mag. +9 Except 26356 00024A USA 149. Flashes: Rainer Kracht "discovered" its flash time with 10.0 seconds flash periode, which I could confirm. I expected a similar flash behaviour about the same amount of minutes after local (true) midnight as we saw before local midnight: evening flashes at about 22:52 local midnight at about 23:48 morning flashes at about 24:44 = 0:44 (all times UT). In the early morning of 15th March I already saw them with last flash at 00:22:59.7, total 9 flashes. I missed several at the beginning. In the early morning of 16th March I saw 12 flashes, last one at 00:22:01.1, I expect that I missed some at the beginning. Fixes: One fix on 24680 96072A USA 129 with a bad accuracy in time (>0.5s?) 24680 96 072A 4160 F 20030315211215970 37 15 0036249+540441 89 S+065 05 Best regards. Bram Dorreman, COSPAR 4160 (Achel 1): 51° 16' 45.5" N (51.2793 N), 5° 28' 36.6" E (5.4768 E) ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SeeSat-L, send a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@satobs.org List archived at http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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