Does anyone know if DMSP B5D2-7 6.4 1.7 0.0 6.1 1 23233U 94057 A 96137.13802605 .00000044 00000-0 23969-4 0 7831 2 23233 98.8293 196.3760 0011868 272.4458 87.5374 14.12703815 88307 is in operation? If so, I may finally have seen that elusive solar panel glint that Bart and (I believe) Jim Varney have been promising me for so long. (Or maybe that C* 1975 OBS I reported the other day is one also?). At 960523 0205 I glanced toward Arcturus hoping to be able to locate 2-7 headed North. I saw something steady and bright headed South. Nope, that's not headed South, that's Arcturus, and the mag 0? object is headed North. Whoa, wait a minute, that's right where 2-7 is supposed to be. And it's goin' the same direction. 2-7 was glinting to mag 0(?). It took more than 20 seconds for it to drop down to maybe mag 3 or 4. Glints are frequent. Usually from dead stuff. The exponential decay of the period/angular momentum of spectacular flashes from C* 1933 and C* 1953 (and, I believe, DMSP B5D1-3 and possibly SROSS-C2) remains exceptional. Or am I missing something obvious? Newbies, welcome to SeeSat-L. We're glad to have you aboard. There are many messages in the SeeSat-L archive on this subject. You could try egrep'ing on glint, 1933, and "solar panel" in latest, old1 and old2. Let us know what you are seeing. Perhaps this OBS will give some hope to those far North of 39N or South of 39S who would like to see Endeavour. I picked it out of the haze at altitude 4.5 degrees at 960522 090742.07, then actually lost it at a higher altitude in cloud and/or twilight off to the SE. Starting more than 20 minutes earlier I had failed to locate the IAE, despite Alan Pickup's best efforts. Congratulations to Kalirai, Kulbinder for this OBS: > What a pleasant surprise when I saw that the shuttle's laser was on!!! You've got my envy. Cheers. Walter Nissen dk058@cleveland.freenet.edu --- Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton