I had the good fortune to have a clear morning and was able to watch ISS and STS101 for about four minutes, from about 10:43:35 to about 10:47:35. They generally seemed to be about as bright as Vega -- except that at about 10:47:02, as they were getting difficult to see low in the north in the dawning light, they suddenly flashed very briefly (for a fraction of a second) to about -3! A while earlier (about 10:05) I saw DSP 20 Titan Rk (26357, 00-24B) from about pass culmination on. (I almost missed it due to going outside too late.) It was about +2 and tumbling with a period of maybe 1.5 seconds. (I hadn't yet gotten my stopwatch freed up from last night's observations.) Also, earlier I saw a couple of bright Iridium flares low in the sky: Iridium 75 at about 9:53:41, -3, and Iridium 64 at about 10:35:37, -5. Both seemed pretty nearly as predicted, as well as a couple of other fainter ones this morning. EUVE (21987, 92-31A) was one-power for about a minute earlier. Was not able to find (one-power) UHF F2 Rk (22788, 93-56B). Observing location, my apartment: 30.3086N, 97.7279W, 150m. The last two evenings FUSE (25791, 99-35A) has been visible at one-power from BCRC (semi-dark site, no moonlight). Now I'd better try to get some sleep! Ed Cannon - ecannon@mail.utexas.edu - Austin, Texas, USA ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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