Sunday evening there was quite a bit of cirrus, plus of course the moonlight showed up pretty early. But I went to the E. Ney museum grounds anyway, planning on searching for the lost 90019. Right away I saw without magnification two bright, fairly fast-moving satellites going perpendicular to each other: the old Atlas Centaur 2 (63-047A, 00694) going east, and Cosmos 1242 (81-008A, 12154) going south. I saw nine one-power ones in all, including Milstar 3 (99-023A, 25724) near perigee. I saw six unids, one not in alldat (possibly 90019?). One of them was a flaring geosat, almost certainly Intelsat 705 (95-013B, 23528), at about 2:15-20 UTC. My first one this season, it was brighter than beta and delta Sextans, which are +5.1 and +5.2, which it was near. Another of the unids was Intelsat 4-7 Rk (73-058B, 06797), which I saw by accident flashing about five minutes before my predictions for it. (I just now noticed that I did had predictions for it. I tracked three unids within eight minutes!) The sky was getting less clear by soon after 9:00 PM local, and I thought my last unid might have been 90019, so I hurried back to my apartment, only to find out that one was GOES 2 Rk(2) (77-048B, 10062). It was another one that turned out not to be in alldat. Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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