I watched the same pass from Falcon CO and observed multiple brightening and fading. It was not extremely bright...actually faint...in 7x50 binoculars but I did see two bright specular reflections. Ron Lee > At 0319UT March 28 I observed Hitomi go through about 5 major rotation > cycles and tracked/recorded it on video. Major peaks were at approximately > 10 second intervals with minor peaks at 5 second intervals. 36 deg above > the SSE, range approximately 1100km. Maximum magnitude reached +3. Other > brightenings seen in between maxima. No other objects spotted in the > immediate vicinity. > PaulCarefree, Arizona Paul D. Maley email: pdmaley_at_yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > Seesat-l mailing list > http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-l > _______________________________________________ Seesat-l mailing list http://mailman.satobs.org/mailman/listinfo/seesat-lReceived on Sun Mar 27 2016 - 22:40:25 UTC
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