Thomas Dorman wrote: > ... on the morning of March 13,2005 at about 7:20 UT > ... I notice a flashing sat. ... I was told this was > Galaxy 7 flashing. ... when out this coming morning at > around the same time would I be able to see Galaxy 7 > flash again. In general (very general), the ones that drift to the west (the great majority of drifters) flash some minutes later from one night to the next. Usually if one flashed a couple of nights ago, it will again. Right now the rapid southward motion of the Sun (well, the changing tilt of the Earth, of course) means in general that the reflections are moving north from night to night, so that could have some effect, but it depends on the path of the flashes on the ground. It's all very technical, and I don't get a lot of it. But I know usually within days you can see one that you saw before. A rough guess is from five to 15 minutes later per night. But Superbird A is only about a minute later per night. 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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