Two obs from April 28 when clouds prevented further obs. Last night is was clear and despite a full moon, 14 sats were observed. The first was 71-116 B; the two periods are obvious. Also observed the new top-priority sat 96- 4 B. 00- 6 B 01-05-07 22:23:40 LB 291.0 0.2 20 14.55 FF, 3->i Period is increasing as expected. Timings and (flashnumber): 14.60(1) 15.61(2) 28.80(4) 27.65(6) 29.19(8) 28.12(10) 30.34(12) 27.42(14) 30.02(16) 29.68(18) 29.57(20) sec. 00- 47 B 01-05-07 20:47 LB S, 4 00- 55 A 01-05-07 21:19 LB almost S, 4 71-116 B 01-05-07 20:32:29 LB 402.7 0.2 22 18.30 FF, 3->i Mostly sharp, bright flashes, some were fainter and missed. Timings: 10.53 7.77 10.43 7.72 10.57 7.82 10.64 7.65 10.81 7.48 10.75 7.39 10.86 7.60 11.03 18.33 7.41 11.08 7.19 11.16 7.11 11.18 6.98 11.33 7.21 11.31 6.89 11.54 7.07 11.29 18.53 18.08 6.99 29.86 6.33 11.67 6.72 11.71 6.65 sec. This results in a combined period of 18.30 sec; counting the single flashes apart it results in P= 7.21 + 11.04 sec; the differance coming from the two or three period timings. 81- 59 A 01-04-28 20:01:08 LB 26.2 0.5 3 8.7 FF, 4->i Dtm, due to the still bright sky 81- 84 B 01-05-07 21:40:31 LB 90.0 1.0 2 45.0 MM, 5->i 84- 56 B 01-05-07 20:53 LB almost S, 5 84-123 A 01-05-07 21:24:27 LB 178.6 0.5 4 44.7 AA, 4->i Timings: 44.49 67.63 35.44 31.04 sec. Time 1 and 2 together for 3 flashes? Then P=35.72 sec 92- 8 B 01-05-07 21:06:25 LB 130.8 0.5 2 65.4 AA, 4->i 93- 59 B 01-05-07 20:42 LB S, 4 93- 70 B 01-05-07 21:57:20 LB 68.8 0.5 4 17.2 AA, 4->i Timings: 17.46 16.83 16.76 17.78 sec 96- 4 B 01-05-07 21:35:02 LB 196.1 0.2 20 9.80 AA, 3->i Timings: 9.40(1) 9.39(2) 19.61(4) 59.36(10) 49.07(15) 49.23(20) sec. In () the flashnumber. 96- 52 C 01-05-07 22:04:22 LB 100.3 0.2 10 10.03 AA, 5->i 99- 22 C 01-05-07 22:13:43 LB 74.6 0.5 9 8.3 AA, 3->5 Timings: 16.11 9.32 7.78 8.58 6.91 9.51 8.73 7.68 sec. Looks like a multiple period 99- 39 B 01-04-28 20:19:41 LB 61.8 0.5 1 61.8 AA, 4->i Was S, mag 2 from south to zenit, then started flashing 99- 39 B 01-05-07 21:01:31 LB 262.1 0.5 4 65.5 AA, 3->i, sm, 5 Timings: 76.98 60.86 61.96 62.34 sec. First flash an error? Greetings and clear, dark skies Leo Barhorst Medemblik 260 obs in 2001 52.767 N 5.09 E 2 m ASL 11275 obs in PPAS ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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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