Gorisont 23

Björn Gimle (b_gimle@algonet.se)
Thu, 6 May 1999 06:34:40 +0200

I tried to see Gorisont 23 (and Raduga 27) earlier (22:10 local DST) with a blue sky
with only Mars and 1st magnitude stars. It took me 20 minutes to find Gorisont, and
about 5 minutes spent on Raduga gave no result. I timed the third flash at 20:33:03.5

Since the period appears well defined by yesterday's observations and Kurt's posting,
I expected that the accuracy would produce a near integer multiple of 50.487+0.005 s

Instead, I get (from 22:19:44.9 79998.6 seconds) 1584 periods of 50.504166 seconds.
With Kurt's 0.01/day, this would make the May 4 period 50.499, just above Kurt's
upper limit, and well above mine.

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