Saw 2 flashing sats last night, one was almost certainly ETS-6 (23230, 94-056A) - thanks Peter Wakelin for the heads up: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Mar-2007/0136.html However, the flash period was about 9 seconds for me visually: Designtn Date Time Obsr Durtn Acc Num Per Remarks 94- 56 A 07-03-15 02:12:06 BY 300.1 0.2 35 8.58 FF mag 6->inv The position was 8h 02m +4.1 at 2:12:06 UT for me and this matches quite well with ETS-6. I found it accidentally while tracking NOSS 8(H) (18025) after systematically searching for half an hour. I was able to just see some 1X flashes but not consistently due to some broken clouds. Then, after a break, it cleared up and I found a flasher that from the previous drift could be ETS-6 again, but now the flashes were quite different, 85 sec period, "up flash" in look like I've seen with Atlas r/b's and brighter at +5: Designtn Date Time Obsr Durtn Acc Num Per Remarks 75- 97 F 07-03-15 02:42:49 BY 255.5 0.2 3 85.2 FF mag 5->inv Position for this was 8h 22m +4.7 at 2:38:34 UT. Only close suspect from findsat was SL-12 r/b(2), 11676, 75-97F - does anyone have a record of this as a flasher? Or, was this ETS-6 later and it has a second extremely different flash mode? Hope to get a chance to look again soon. Brad Young TULSA 1 COSPAR 8336 36.1397N, 95.9838W, 205m ASL ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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