The past two evenings Raduga 21 (18631, 87-100A) has been flaring(?) to 4th magnitude. The flares(?) last for nearly 5 seconds, the spacing is somewhat irregular, and the magnitude varies. The shortest period that I have consistently observed is 33 seconds. The last two evenings it has been visible from the west coast between 04:30 and 05:00 UTC. In addition, it would appear that Spacenet 2 (15385, 84-114A) may be flashing with a period of about 88 seconds. This one was observed last night between 05:00 and 05:30 UTC. Location is between Telstar 401 and GSTAR 1. Both of these are easy binocular objects (I was using 10X50's) if anyone is interested. Could not find them in the PPAS database, so I figured they were worth mentioning. Gorizont 17 (89-004A) is also over the US, flashing to approximately mag. 5 every 40.66 seconds. Best, and clear, dark skies. Steve LaLumondiere -118.316, 33.820 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www2.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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