Bev M Ewen-Smith wrote: > Obs time 2008-03-28 00:08 > Obs posn N37 11 24 W008 36 00 > > We were trying to get a spectrum of a quasar last night and > while waiting for a gap in the clouds we noticed a repetitive > bright flash (mag +4) from a position about 2 degrees south > of pi Vir (sat at approx 12h01m+04°30'). There was > intermittent broken cloud so timing the flash was imprecise > but it appeared to be about 8 seconds but could conceivably > be a multiple or even a submultiple of that. ETS 6 (94056A / 23230) is a close match: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Oct-2003/0325.html It has a long history of flashing brightly, with about the same period that you observed. Here are PPAS reports over the past year or so: 94- 56 A 07-03-15 02:12:06 BY 300.1 0.2 35 8.58 F; +6->inv; b6) 94- 56 A 07-03-15 02:12:22 BY 300.1 0.2 35 8.58 8336; F; +6->inv; b7) 94- 56 A 07-04-08 02:50:36 BY 321.4 0.2 38 8.46 F; +7->inv; note b8 94- 56 A 07-04-17 02:59:05 BY 226.6 0.2 26 8.72 F; +4 (8335); note b9 94- 56 A 07-04-20 02:31:04 BY 87.5 0.2 10 8.75 F; +7->inv 94- 56 A 07-04-20 02:56:36 BY 52.3 0.2 6 8.71 F; +5->inv 1X 94- 56 A 07-04-20 02:59:57 BY 87.4 0.2 10 8.74 F; +4->inv 1X 94- 56 A 07-04-20 03:03:19 BY 35.0 0.2 4 8.75 F; +4->inv 1X 94- 56 A 07-04-20 03:05:13 BY 87.4 0.2 10 8.74 F; +6->inv 12X b 94- 56 A 07-04-20 03:11:55 BY 87.4 0.2 10 8.74 F; +6->inv 12X b 94- 56 A 08-02-13 01:37:26 BY 50.6 0.3 6 8.4 F; +6->inv 94- 56 A 08-02-13 01:39:47 BY 96.8 0.3 11 8.80 F; +5->inv 94- 56 A 08-02-13 01:42:34 BY 114.4 0.3 13 8.80 F; +5->inv 94- 56 A 08-02-13 01:47:51 BY 87.8 0.3 10 8.77 F; +6->inv PPAS format: http://www.satobs.org/tumble/flashpm.html#PPASformat Ted Molczan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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